Getting Ready for Zakaria

By John Deats
Director, Fasken LRC/Library at Midland College

We have the following books by the Davidson Series lecturer, Dr. Fareed Zakaria, available in the LRC's collection. These are available for checkout:

1) The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (2011 update)
(call number: CB161 .Z34 2011)

Global Books In Print Review: 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 book's predictions having been borne out sooner than expected, Zakaria examines new threats to America's image and influence abroad that are posed by . globa. 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 strugglin. 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 Britain's 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 Zakaria's initial title about America's shifting influence in world politics became a blockbusting international best-seller; here he revises and expands upon that work. -- Bush, Vaness.
 Other books by Dr. Zakaria in LRC collection:


2) The Post-American World (2008 original)
(call number: CB161 .Z34 2008)

3) The Future of Freedom : Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003)
(call number: JC423 .Z35 2003)

4) From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role (1998)
(call number: E661.7 .Z35 1998)

I hope several of you take advantage of these and many other of our resources on these topics.