The book says, America has a problem and the world has a problem. Thomas Friedman: You're absolutely right-it is about two things. Thomas Friedman and Fareed Zakaria: Author One-to-Oneįareed Zakaria: Your book is about two things, the climate crisis and also about an American crisis. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. He sees the "rise of the rest"-the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others-as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering.
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