The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria has written thoughtfully and widely on geopolitics and global society. He also discusses issues in a refreshingly interactive way with world leaders on CNN. His recent book, The Post-American World, despite its gloomy title, forecasts a happy ending to the next leg of the American journey.

One of Mr. Zakaria’s catchy catch phrases is “the rise of the rest”. This sums up his view of America’s position and attributes the current situation to “three tectonic power shifts” of historic proportion: the rise of the western world, the rise of the United States and the rise of the rest. The rise of the rest is now upon us and has given “birth of a truly global order”.