The Post-American World

THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD; Fareed Zakaria; New York: Norton, 2008; 292pp.
Nonfiction

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, has written a fine, eminently sensible book about how the United States needs to adapt not to its own decline, but to what he calls "the rise of the rest." Taking nations such as China, India, and Brazil as models, he ably demonstrates how economic growth elsewhere need not spell disaster to the United States, and that we should abandon xenophobia, pride, and global bullying in our misguided efforts to hold a position in the world which it is not necessarily in our best interest to maintain. Zakaria's encyclopedic knowledge of economics and history, and his uncommon common sense make this a must-read
for anyone interested in global economics, politics, and nationalism, or in the future of the Republic. One would hope each of the Presidential hopefuls would take time to read this book.

LW