The Post-American World
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00192BYJE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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The future we face is the post-American world.. 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. 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. 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. A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global Age For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of Amer
a winner's odd neuroses An odd sensation grips this reader as he negotiates Zakaria’s 2008 cheerfully globalist work (an updated edition appeared in 2012) in the Era of Trump amid the Rise of the New Nationalisms. As a sympathizer with Zakaria’s internationalism, I acknowledge that the sureties he dispenses are now all contested. O. Joan C. Scott said I wish every American would read and understand this book!. Mr. Zakaria has a very perceptive view of the future of the world and America's range of possible roles within that future. If you study history with a view to how the human race has developed, one of the themes within that view is that, for our protection, we continually learn to form larger and more inclusive groups w. "An Extremely Readable Explanation of the U.S. Today" according to Trudy. Zakaria analyzes where the U.S. has been and how it has arrived where it is today. I am impressed by his insights into the dangers facing us today. Dangers that are plagued by our frightening ourselves over terrorist, seeing ourselves as imminently about to be personally in danger at all times, giving up privacy and ind
. Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International and writes a weekly column on international affairs. His previous book was the New York Times bestseller The Future of Freedom. He lives in New York City
"A definitive handbook for political and business leaders who want to succeed in a global era." -- Walter Isaacson author of Einstein: His Life and Universe