As these trends continue, the push of globalization will increasingly be joined by the pull of nationalism - a tension that is likely to define the next decades. It's also producing political confidence and national pride. This economic growth is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places. A lucid, thought-provoking appraisal of world affairs, this book will engage readers on both sides of the political spectrum.A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global Ageįor Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else - the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more. a more youthful demographic than Europe and much of Asia whose workers support an increasing population of unproductive elderly. Zakaria predicts that despite its record of recent blunders at home and abroad, America will stay strong, buoyed by a stellar educational system and the influx of young immigrants, who give the U.S. Paradoxically, India's greatest asset is its relative stability in the region its officials take an unruly population for granted, while dissent produces paranoia in Chinese leaders. Its political antithesis, India, also prospers while remaining a chaotic, inefficient democracy, as Indian elected officials are (generally) loathe to use the brutally efficient tactics that are the staple of Chinese governance. Twenty years ago China discarded Soviet economics but not its politics, leading to a wildly effective, top-down, scorched-earth boom. Burgeoning prosperity has spread to the developing world, raising standards of living in Brazil, India, China and Indonesia. We are living in a peaceful era, he maintains world violence peaked around 1990 and has plummeted to a record low. ) delivers a stimulating, largely optimistic forecast of where the 21st century is heading.

They are in for a pleasant surprise as NewsweekĮditor and popular pundit Zakaria ( The Future of Freedom When a book proclaims that it is not about the decline of America but “the rise of everyone else,” readers might expect another diatribe about our dismal post-9/11 world.

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