Post-American World
I just finished reading The Post-American World
which complements Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat
thesis is that America is not declining, but everyone else is rising.
America's current xenophobia, however, is thwarting our positive role
in the world as a sole superpower and as a model for other nations.
Zakaria further states that the rising nations of China and India (and
the rest of the BRIC group) are not going to start waging wars and
disrupting peace. We are all heavily dependent on one another, as has
been shown in the current recession. Having written this book right as
the recession was starting Zakaria's outlook has been surprisingly
accurate. His view that American politicians will start calling for
attacks on someone or another if there was to be an another terrorist
attempt has played out as he wrote it, especially since the Christmas
terrorist attempt.
disappear: we have the best universities and most innovative companies
in the world. What needs to happen is America needs to view itself no
longer as the center of things using force whenever applicable, but it
needs to use more soft power bring everyone together. The world of
American centrism has long passed and we are entering a multi-polar
world.
