My Photo  Thursday, October 11, 2012  The Post-American World
In one of the more hyped books of the political science
literature, Fareed Zakaria, explains The Post-American World,
which were to follow the United States unipolar moment during
the late 20th/early 21st century. For Zakaria this is not so
much due to "the decline of America but rather about the rise of
the everyone else." The economic success and increasing
geopolitical importance of "the rest," the non-Western world,
has been "most visible in Asia but it is no longer confined to
it" with the rest of the BRICs but also large parts of Africa
having made tremendous progress.  Zakaria goes then on to detail
to some extent the rise of China and India contrasting their
respective economic and political (dis)advantages - democratic
governance vs efficient decision-making to sum it up really
concisely. His final chapter then deals with the US again and
effectively proposes policy but also cultural or societal
changes that would help the country, which