The Post American World: Release 2.0 Paperback – May 22 2012 by Fareed Zakaria (Author) 4.2 out of 5 stars 18 customer reviews. Download captain tsubasa j episode 50. Full text of ' THE POST- AMERICAN I AKARIA author of The Future of Freedom ISBN 978-0-393-06235-9 USA $25.95 Can. $28.50 For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is 'the rise of the rest' — 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. Economic growth is 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. Global growth produces many good things but also many problems — and the world is not yet equipped to tackle them. The current political debate in the United States is utterly out of touch with this broad development, obsessed with issues like terrorism, immigration, homeland security, and economic panics. The real challenges that the country faces come from the winners, not the losers, of the new world. Zakaria outlines the contemporary diffusion of power throughout the world. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, he 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.' The great challenge for Britain was economic decline. The challenge for America is political decline, for as others grow in importance, the cen- tral role of the United States has to shrink. Washington needs to begin a serious transforma- tion of its global strategy, moving from being the dominating hegemon to a role that is more like an (continued on back flap) (c out in ur d front fnrtt flap} honest broker. It must seek to share power, create coalitions, build legitimacy, and define the global agenda — all formidable tasks. None of this will be easy for the greatest power the world has ever known — the only power that has really mattered for so long But as we learn in this deeply relevant and eloquent new book, all that is changing now. The future we face is the post-American world. FAREED Z AK A R I A is the editor of Newsweek International and writes a weekly column on inter- national affairs. His previous book was the New York Times bestseller The Future of Freedom. He lives in New York City. JACKET DESIGN BY DEBRA MOETON HOYT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH; GETTY IMAGES AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH BY DAN DEITCH PHINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA CURRENT AFFAIRS From the New York Times best -selling author of The Future of Freedom comes a prophetic assessment of America's changing place in an increasingly global age. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD 'Fareed Zakaria has been consistently brilliant in his analysis of world affairs but also something far more rare: he has turned out to have been right. Now he's produced another masterpiece of insight. With great reporting and cultural understanding, Zakaria explains a future shaped by many emerging power centers.
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