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The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
from W. W. Norton

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• The Post American World
  The Post-American World
  I got a great price and excellent service on the delivery of this book. Zakaria's book is very provocative, and challenges most of the assumptions we have inherited about America from our parents. He gives us a sypathetic look at America from a world that is moving beyond the cold war, in many places faster than we are.

• The Post American World
  It is uncanny how accurate Zakaria is in his assesment of the current relative financial positions of the world's major economic powers in light of the world financial meltdown. THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD is an eye-opening informational treasure. Most Americans see the interaction of America with the rest of the world through special lenses. This book reveals the lenses used by the other contries seeing America's actions as they are affected. The idea of sitting down at the table with another country as... more info

• A non-spastic view of America's future
  Zakaria presents an excellent, balanced view of the future of American unipolarity and the impact of the Big Two - China and India, on America's future. Instead of doomsday predictions and worry about how China and India will take over, he presents a pragmatic view of how these and other countries are rising - not that America is necessarily failing.
  Zakaria also outlines a realistic roadmap for how America can avoid continuing as an international pariah and retain its influence, by realizing it is the... more info

• American Purpose
  This is an excellent book with a few very minor flaws, but if a reader had only time for a quick read he/she would do well to turn to the chapter called "American Purpose" and read Zakaria's six simple guidelines for what operating in the "new world" would look like. He suggests that America:
  1. Choose.
  2. Build broad rules, not narrow interests.
  3. Be Bismarck not Britain.
  4. Order a la carte.
  5. Think asymmetrically; and realize
  6. Legitimacy is power.
  His... more info

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