Rating: - Incisive World View
[[ASIN:039306235X The Post-American World]
An outstanding book which tells where the US stands today on the world stage and the important role that China and India will play in our future. This is an important book for anyone seeking an informed and objective viewpoint. It's also well written and captivating.It is a must read for anyone interested in globalism,business and economics. It would be a highly worthwhile book for both presidential candidates to read to help whoever wins to create a more more cogent economic and diplomatic policy.
Rating: - A mediore work with absymal editorial job
Overall I think this is a superficial analysis. There are many historical analogies but there were few compelling arguments.
What's more, the editorial job for the Kindle edition is really really bad. It seems that the editor did not know how to typeset the emdash "--". Instead, he/she used two hyphens with a space in the middle "- -". This caused a lot of formatting issues. Also the author's name (!!) did not format correctly in the main menu. I emailed the customer service but there are still no corrected version as of today.
Rating: - Great foreign policy book
Great Book, Fareed writes an objective yet clear analysis of the current foreign affairs issues.
Rating: - Zakaria wisdom comes through again
Fareed Zakaria's extremely useful perspectives and insights are partly due to his origins in India, and his travels in his work as a journalist having extensive conversations with leaders all over the world.
He writes clearly and doesn't seem to be trying to impress with how knowledgeable he is. All the while drawing pictures which seem to me to have more depth about how the world really works than anyone else I've read.
This book is about empires and how they have been managed over the last few hundred years. What seemed to work and what didn't work.
He has some clear recommendations about the US should do to manage in the world without the hegemony we've enjoyed in the last 50 years. He describes the rise of recently poor countries, especially China, as a change we aren't dealing with very well. He sees the fear-mongering of our politicians as the biggest handicap we have, but doesn't mention the media's role in nightly rubbing our noses in the many potential dangers in the world, giving us a very distorted view.
Very worth reading.
Rating: - pretty good road map
Mr. Zakaria is an unabashed free trader and glosses over the bad results the IMF and WTO and the Chicago School of Economics have had on real people. However, he is an intelligent observer and has good recommendations for the future. He also has some pretty good insight into where we have gone wrong. This should definitely be read by voters getting ready to choose a president.
- Incisive World View
- A mediore work with absymal editorial job
- pretty good road map