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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global AgeFor Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else -- the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more. This economic growth is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places. It's also producing political confidence and national pride. As these trends continue, the push of globalization will increasingly be joined by the pull of nationalism -- a tension that is likely to define the next decades. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, Zakaria draws on lessons from the two great power shifts of the past five hundred years -- the rise of the Western world and the rise of the United States -- to tell us what we can expect from the third shift, the "rise of the rest." Washington must begin a serious transformation of global strategy and seek to share power, create coalitions, build legitimacy, and define the global agenda. None of this will be easy for the greatest power the world has ever known -- the only power that for so long has really mattered. But all that is changing now. The future we face is the post-American world.
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Customer Rating: Summary: A short review of the world Comment: If this book created any controversy, it was likely due to the title. For some, the idea of a "Post-American World" means the decline of the United States, with other nations supplanting it as the most powerful international entity. Zakaria's view of a post-American world, however, is much more optimistic. The "post-American" part of his argument does not foretell the decline of America, but the rising of the others. This may mean greater relative power for nations like China and India, but Zakaria is careful to note just how far ahead the United States lies in prosperity and military strength.
In the end, this book is not an obituary for the U.S. as a declining superpower; it is a celebration of the whole world improving under American leadership. Zakaria lauds the international economic development that pulls more and more people out of extreme poverty every year. He also lays out ideas to allow America to continue as a world leader from our current precarious status.
Zakaria's arguments are compelling, and he backs many of them with quoted statistics. Nonetheless, this book is clearly not a comprehensive account of the state of the world. Instead, this is a broad outline of how far the world has come in the past decades, and a brief discussion of what should and may happen in the future. For a quick geopolitical read, it is informative and clear. The book can only scratch the surface, however, of the complex issues discussed. Definitely worth a read if you're tired of all of the doomsday predictions so fashionable in discussions of international politics.
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