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His argument that our politics do not do us justice in these challenging times because our political party's are too polarized and afraid to make changes and hard choices is spot on. His knowledge is encyclopedic and he looks at this topic from many angles in which he delves into military history, politics, literature, economics and religion.I would have liked more analysis of Brazil(His main focus is on China and India) but that is a minor point. intervenes, seeing China and India as partners not rivals and developing new approaches to dealing with global tensions.
as the only superpower is over. His final chapter cites ways in which the U.S. Farred Zakaria is a rarity, he is an intellectual with a deft writing style who is one of the best news analysts on the planet.(His GPS on CNN is a true reason to watch television-unlike so many blowhards who call themselves analysts-Zakaria-is the real deal) His Post- American World is a thoughtful rumination on the rise of the rest and the impact of globalization on politics, economics and culture.His main focus is on the vast changes taking place as China and India rise to prominence on the international scene.( In some way's Tom Friedman's The World Seems Flat is already outdated) Zakaria does not argue that America is obsolete, quite the opposite, but he maintains that there are seismic changes at foot in the world and that the role of the U.S.
can navigate in these new times and his suggestions include, picking and choosing where the U.S. This brilliant work deserves wide readership, but our leaders must take in its thoughts. He sees the U.S.
as still playing a crucial role as a sort of global honest broker, but that is only if America adjusts to the rapidly changing world and instead of yearning to go back to it's old days as global super power, shaping a new place for itself.
Even Napolean recognized this when France attempted to kill off priests, monks and bishops in an attempt to eliminate Christianty. He states that India and China will dominate the world. If history has taught us anything is that a nation whose only absolute is that which is dictated by the state has rarely stays in power for long. Zakria's book is wishful thinking on his part.
Let's see China with it's slave shops and India which still is dealing with diseases like cholera and dysentary on a daily basis. I will say there are two advantages to this book. One is that it worked well in the cat box. Second I do like to point out authors such as Zakaria to my son, so he can know what a moral idiot looks like. I knew what I was in for when the first line of the book starts out as: "This book is not about the decline of America but the rise of everyone else." Oh please give me a break. I would equate a comment like that with the popularity of the 12-step movement of the 80's when the minority of people were calling the majority "co-dependent." In other words it's horribly fashionable right now to be a "globalist" and bashing America is oh so hip. India has diseases like polio and whooping cough that have been erradicated from the U.S. The bottom line China's leadership has absolutely no respect for freedom and little for human life.
began boycotting products from China. Yeah being a dominnat force in world politics actually calls for a sense of some morality. What I found kind of shocking ist hat the book didn't go beyond that of the evening newspaper with respect to grammar and sentence structure. years ago through vacines. China's leaders get mad and they send out armed soldiers to mow down unarmed students.
Mr. Russia did it for 70 years and Hitler for 13. The only reason that they employed some quality control was because consumers in the U.S. Is this guy joking. China which up until recentlly had little or no quality control regarding the toys that it shipped to the U.S.
Zakaria's Indian upbringing, U.S. in political science from Harvard give him a unique insight that most authors and journalists lack.This book is far better than it's current four-star rating suggests. This is an outstanding book on international relations and the probable roles of the United States, China, and India in the twenty-first century. citizenship, and Ph.D. Unfortunately, its average rating is held back by a few xenophobic anti-globalists. Zakaria is not predicting the decline of the United States. Instead Zakaria believes the economic growth of China, and to a lesser extent, India, will lead to a world with several, more equal world powers.
The author provides all of the background needed to understand. How do we get our elites, business leaders and congressman to understand. Thank you. The single superpower reigned for a decade or two. We've moved back to the normal historical situation of multilateralism.
What about an equitable society with health care, education and food security for all.not in America. Flat, Crowded and Hot is a better read but still worships at the altar of capitalism. A brief summary of America (the Empire) today and how the 'rise of the rest' as China & India catch up to our standard of living, will be a future challenge. Fareed fails to address how we will accommodate 3 billion more souls in the next 40 years and the environmental destruction that will follow. Onward the corptocracy. levels of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet Earths'. Fareed has no answer except increase GDP which he mentions over and over as if this is the only measure of progress.
Some fortune 500 companies pay nothing while the effective corporate tax rate is just 13.4% and total corporate taxes as a percentage of total US tax revenue has declined by 2/3s since 1960 (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities [.].). Corporate taxes are too high at 35% says Fareed but he fails to mention that few pay it.
Wilson pointed out in 2002 "The Bottleneck" Scientific American, for '.the world to reach present U.S. And the 120 plus countries occupied by American troops making the world safe for McDonalds and McDonnell-Douglas.
Too bad Fareed isn't a biologist or did some simple compounding math. He ignores the 75+ and counting countries America has either occupied or overthrown in the past 50 years, some democratically elected (Chile, Iran, Congo, Panama, Ecuador to name a few) see The Economic Hit Man.
Of course we've seen how well capitalism works for the poor, shrinking middle class and homeless while socialism (bailouts) has fattened the already bloated Wallstreet banksters. As E.O.
That was written when there were 6 billion people.how many Earths are needed when there are 9 billion in 2050.
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