We have urged peoples in distant lands to take up the challenge of competing in the global economy, freeing up their currencies, and developing new industries. Zakaria notes, is that it is largely a result of American ideas and actions: “For 60 years, American politicians and diplomats have traveled around the world pushing countries to open their markets, free up their politics, and embrace trade and technology. Zakaria argues that we are now in the midst of the third great tectonic power shift to occur over the last 500 years: the first was the rise of the West, which produced “modernity as we know it: science and technology, commerce and capitalism, the agricultural and industrial revolutions” the second was the rise of the United States in the 20th century and the third is what he calls “the rise of the rest,” with China and India “becoming bigger players in their neighborhoods and beyond,” Russia becoming more aggressive, and Europe acting with “immense strength and purpose” on matters of trade and economics.

Zakaria writes that America remains a politico-military superpower, but “in every other dimension industrial, financial, educational, social, cultural the distribution of power is shifting, moving away from American dominance.” With the rise of China, India and other emerging markets, with economic growth sweeping much of the planet, and the world becoming increasingly decentralized and interconnected, he contends, “we are moving into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people.”įor that matter, Mr. In his new book, “The Post-American World,” Mr. economy is as large as the next three Japan, Germany and Britain put together,” adding that “it is more dynamic economically, more youthful demographically and more flexible culturally than any other part of the world.” What worries people around the world above all else, he wrote, “is living in a world shaped and dominated by one country the United States.” America’s position today is unprecedented.” He went on to declare that “American dominance is not simply military.

In a 2003 article in Newsweek, written on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Fareed Zakaria a columnist for the magazine and the editor of its international edition wrote: “It is now clear that the current era can really have only one name, the unipolar world an age with only one global power. What a difference five years and one war make!

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