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The postamerican world fareed zakaria has been consistently brilliant in his analysis of world affairs but also something far more rare. By zakarias account, americas strength will lie in freedom and diversityand the postamerican era may not last all that long, since americas population is growing, and growing younger, while the demographics of asia and europe are largely pointing to older populations and, in time, fewer workers. It was published in hardcover and audiobook formats in early may 2008 and became available in paperback in early may 2009. I am writing to recommend the book the postamerican world by fareed zakaria with some caveats.
Zakaria, the host of cnns fareed zakaria gps and an editor at large for time magazine, charts the fall of americas dominance and the simultaneous rise of the rest of the world in his book the. Washington still has no true rival, and will not for a very long time, but it faces a growing number of constraints. The author makes compelling arguments that it is the rise of the rest and not americas decline at the heart of this global era. American crises seem to produce two kinds of diagnosticians, those who want to. This is not a book about the decline of america, but rather about the rise of everyone else. I was touted onto the book by a circulating email picturing president obama carrying the book with comments implying the book predicted the end of the usa and stating that its author was a muslim. Fareed zakaria analyzes the nature of what he calls the postamerican world, a title and phrase whose meaning is not as provocative as some readers might expect. Following on the success of his bestselling the future of. He also hosts the weekend cnn program on international affairs, fareed zakaria gps. Following on the success of his bestselling the future of freedom, zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the united states will no longer dominate the global economy.