The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (Updated, Expanded)

By Fareed Zakaria
"Zakaria updates his best-selling earlier vision of world economics and politics, which foresaw the decline of American dominance but reassured us that with that decline came the rise of the rest of the world. Many of the earlier books predictions having been borne out sooner than expected, Zakaria examines new threats to Americas image and influence abroad that are posed by a global financial crisis that has hurt mostly the U.S. and Europe. He examines trends in politics, economics, and technology that have contributed to the rising of underdeveloped nations and continue to push their advancement as many move from anti-American to post-American views of the world and their places in it. Zakaria particularly attends to the promise of India and China, rising economies with huge populations and struggling cultural cocktails, which maintain some traditions while adapting to modernism. He contrasts government-ordered expansion in China with the messiness of Indian entrepreneurship. He parallels the current American moment and the history of Britains rise, world dominance, and decline while America ascended, despite which Britain has remained a major power because it chose to adapt to geopolitical change rather than fight it. Zakaria sees a similar future for the U.S. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Fareed Zakarias initial title about Americas shifting influence in world politics became a blockbusting international best-seller; here he revises and expands upon that work "  (Booklist)  Check Our Catalog