| Ongeveer de Auteur: Farid Zakaria is de Internationale redacteur van Newsweek en PostGlobal mede-moderator. Fareed Zakaria werd genoemd internationale redacteur van Newsweek in Oktober 2000, die op alle uitgaven van Newsweek in het buitenland toezicht houdt. Het tijdschrift bereikt een publiek van 24 miljoen wereldwijd. Hij schrijft ook a regelmatige kolom voor Newsweek, wat ook in Newsweek en om de veertien dagen in de Washington Post Internationaal lijkt. Beginnend dit jaar, zal hij nieuwe buitenlandse zaken toont wereldwijd op CNN ontvangen. |
De „post-Amerikaanse Wereld,“ onderzoekt hoe de wereld als V.S. zal veranderen. misstappen verder van zijn decennium-lange positie van overheersing. In de post-Amerikaanse Wereld, debatteert Fareed Zakaria dat „stijging van de rest“ is het grote verhaal van onze tijd.
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Van de Wereld van het Boek van de Washington Post/washingtonpost.com: Na de oorlog van Irak, debatteerde Fareed Zakaria in zijn kolom van Newsweek dat het nieuwe het organiseren zich van de wereld principe was pro-of anti-Americanism. Maar aangezien de knoeiboel van Irak en de stijgingen van China aansleept, is het grotere verhaal van de post-Cold era van de Oorlog in scherpe hulp gekomen: Wij zijn niet het centrum van het heelal. Het is minder van belang dat de bijzondere landen dan dat de wereld meer en meer nietAmerikaans is pro of anti-Amerikaans zijn. We need to get over ourselves.
Zakaria’s The Post-American World is about the “rise of the rest,” a catchy phrase from one of the most widely cited writers on foreign affairs. His prism is correct: We should focus more on the “rest,” even if America is still the premier superpower. But within this broad approach, Zakaria leaves policy-makers to figure out how to rank challenges and restore U.S. legitimacy.
Zakaria zooms in on Asia, especially India and China, which he uses as proxies for “the rest.” The first third of the book sets out his thesis — “For the first time ever, we are witnessing genuinely global growth” — and the next third describes how China’s economy has doubled every eight years and how India may have the world’s third largest economy by 2040.
This year has brought a flood of books on Asia’s rise, including Bill Emmott’s Rivals and Kishore Mahbubani’s The New Asian Hemisphere. For the most part, they embody the “world is flat” thesis — lots of economic statistics, little geography. But geopolitics is about more than growth rates. It matters that China borders a dozen more countries than India does, isn’t hemmed in by a vast ocean and the world’s tallest mountains, has a loyal diaspora twice the size of India’s and enjoys a head start in Asian and African marketplaces. Zakaria’s chapters on China and India, though of equal length, should not connote equivalency, and all “the rest” cannot be happily lumped together. Does China’s example tell us what has gone wrong in Venezuela and Pakistan, and could go wrong in Egypt and Indonesia?
Ironically, the final third of The Post-American World, which focuses on us rather than on “the rest,” is the strongest. Zakaria argues that America’s world-beating economic vibrancy co-exists with a dysfunctional political system. “A ‘can-do’ country is now saddled with a ‘do-nothing’ political process, designed for partisan battle rather than problem solving,” he writes. That makes it hard to devise a grand strategy, and Zakaria offers just a few “simple guidelines” on the need to set priorities, build global rules and be flexible. But in this non-American world, it may be too late to restore U.S. leadership. “The rest” is moving on…Copyright 2008, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.
Product Description: One of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the “rise of the rest” is the great story of our time.
“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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