Name: The Post-American World
ISBN: 9780393340389

Fareed Zakaria

Describes the surging growth of the economies of China, India, and Brazil while the United States and other advanced economies have stalled.

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The Post-American World

Explores how the rapid rise of such nations as China, India, and Brazil is countering America's previous dominance over the global economy, geopolitics, and culture, and shares advice on how the United States can thrive in the face of international changes.

Chris Aldrich

Indeed America is far too insular and inward thinking/looking. Perhaps with a little less partisanship we can become broader minded and begin to thrive again in the bigger and expanding world economy. Zakaria's analogy to Britain's loss of power is certainly well argued and I'd agree with his position that America ought to take a more Bizmarkian view of the world. His views are well thought out and reasoned with supporting evidence in a general sense. It's interesting to see someone who is a bit left leaning seem to agree so generally with the right leaning Alan Greenspan whose book The Age of Turbulence which I'm about half way through at the moment.

Most interesting about the book is the obvious influence that Zakaria's upbringing and education have on influencing his viewpoints. If nothing they lend a great deal more weight to his thesis in terms of how he sees not only the "rise of the rest" but how America fits within that tapestry.

From an analytic viewpoint, the book takes a long enough look on a broad enough timescale, that I'd even be almost willing to put it into the category of "Big History" and certainly from the perspective of America's brief role in the world. We need more longer view analyses like this one in the marketplace of ideas.

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