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1、THEPOST-AMERICANWORLDFAREEDZAKARIAauthorofTheFutureofFreedomISBN978-0-393-06235-9USA$25.95Can.$28.50orFareedZakaria,thegreatstoryofourtimesis"theriseoftherest"—thegrowthofFcountriessuchasChina,India,Brazil,Russia,SouthAfrica,Kenya,andmany,manymore.Thi
2、seconomicgrowthisgeneratinganewgloballandscapewherepowerisshiftingandwealthandinnovationarebubblingupinunexpectedplaces.Economicgrowthisalsoproducingpoliticalconfidenceandnationalpride.Asthesetrendscontinue,thepushofglobalizationwillincreasinglybejoin
3、edbythepullofnationalism—atensionthatislikelytodefinethenextdecades.Globalgrowthproducesmanygoodthingsbutalsomanyproblems—andtheworldisnotyetequippedtotacklethem.ThecurrentpoliticaldebateintheUnitedStatesisutterlyoutoftouchwiththisbroaddevelopment,obs
4、essedwithissuesliketerrorism,immigration,homelandsecurity,andeconomicpanics.Therealchallengesthatthecountryfacescomefromthewinners,notthelosers,ofthenewworld.Zakariaoutiinesthecontemporarydiffusionofpowerthroughouttheworld.Withhiscustomarylucidity,ins
5、ight,andimagination,hedrawsonlessonsfromthetwogreatpowershiftsofthepastfivehundredyears—theriseoftheWesternworldandtheriseoftheUnitedStates—totelluswhatwecanexpectfromthethirdshift,the"riseoftherest."ThegreatchallengeforBritainwaseconomicdecline.Thech
6、allengeforAmericaispoliticaldecline,forasothersgrowinimportance,thecentralroleoftheUnitedStateshastoshrink.Washingtonneedstobeginaserioustransformationofitsglobalstrategy,movingfrombeingthedominatinghegemontoarolethatismorelikean(continuedonbackflap)(
7、continuedfromfrontflap)honestbroker.Itmustseektosharepower,createcoalitions,buildlegitimacy,anddefinetheglobalagenda—allformidabletasks.Noneofthiswillbeeasyforthegreatestpowertheworldhaseverknown—theonlypowerthathasreallymatteredforsolong.Butaswelearn
8、inthisdeeplyrelevantandeloquentnewbook,allthatischangingnow.Thefuturewefaceisthepost-Americanworld.FAREEDZAKARIAistheeditorofNewsweekInternationalandwritesaweeklycolumnoninternationalaffairs.HispreviousbookwastheNewYorkTimesbestsellerTheFuture
