The Post-American World
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
BBB Library: Technology and Globalization, Politics and Public Affairs
ISBN: 9780393334807
Editorial Review
This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else. So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the rise of the rest —the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.
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The Post-American World is not about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.
The Post-American World is about the great transformation taking place around the world, a transformation that, though often discussed, remains poorly understood.
Though we talk about a new era, the world seems to be one with which we are familiar. But in fact, it is very different.
In every dimension; industrial, financial, educational and cultural, the distribution of power is shifting, moving away from American dominance.
we are moving into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people.
The world's politics seems deeply troubled, with daily reports of bombings, terror plots and civil strife.
Al Qaeda, the group led by Osama Bin Laden, was a terrorist organization; it has become a communications company, producing the occasional video¬tape rather than actual terrorism.
Cheap phone calls and broadband made it possible for people to do jobs for one country in another country, marking the next stage in the ongoing story of capitalism.
Americans take justified pride in their own country (we call it patriotism); yet, they are genuinely startled when other people are proud and possessive of theirs.
American consultants are routinely paid princely fees to tell Asian and Latin American politicians how best to appeal to their own countrymen.
Foreign leaders are now flocking to India pledging to form deeper and stronger relations with the once exotic land.
Perplexed foreigners might be comforted to know that Indians themselves remain unsure of the answers to these questions.
When you got to your room, you found a Pashmina shawl and an iPod shuffle loaded with Hollywood songs, gifts from the Indian delega¬tion.
Britain has been a rich country for centuries, but it was an economic superpower for lit¬tle longer than a generation.
Britain managed to maintain its position as the leading world power for decades after it lost its economic dominance, thanks to a combination of shrewd strategic outlook and good diplo¬macy.
This difference between America and Britain can be seen in the burden of their military budgets. Britannia ruled the seas, but never the land.
The United States has the most powerful military in the history of the world. Yet, it has found it difficult to prevail in Iraq.
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