Fareed Zakaria

CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education―how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning―precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

New York Times Bestseller COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.

"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. 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. 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. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. 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.

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live. Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world?In this major work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world. Three such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a fascinating series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world—and created politics as we know it today. Next, the French Revolution, an explosive era that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us today. Finally, the mother of all revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Great Britain and the US to global dominance and created the modern world.Alongside these paradigm-shifting historical events, Zakaria probes four present-day revolutions: globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics. For all their benefits, the globalization and technology revolutions have produced profound disruptions and pervasive anxiety and our identity. And increasingly, identity is the battlefield on which the twenty-first century’s polarized politics are fought. All this is set against a geopolitical revolution as great as the one that catapulted the United States to world power in the late nineteenth century. Now we are entering a world in which the US is no longer the dominant power. As we find ourselves at the nexus of four seismic revolutions, we can easily imagine a dark future. But Zakaria proves that pessimism is premature. If we act wisely, the liberal international order can be revived and populism relegated to the ash heap of history.As few public intellectuals can, Zakaria combines intellectual range, deep historical insight, and uncanny prescience to once again reframe and illuminate our turbulent present. His bold, compelling arguments make this book essential reading in our age of revolutions.

Examines the influence of democracy on politics, business and economics, law, culture, and religion in different regions of the world; explores the dark side of the democratic process and its sometimes negative impact; and reflects on the future of world democracy. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international the emergence of a new power. In From Wealth to Power , Fareed Zakaria seeks to answer these questions by examining the most puzzling case of a rising power in modern history--that of the United States.If rich nations routinely become great powers, Zakaria asks, then how do we explain the strange inactivity of the United States in the late nineteenth century? By 1885, the U.S. was the richest country in the world. And yet, by all military, political, and diplomatic measures, it was a minor power. To explain this discrepancy, Zakaria considers a wide variety of cases between 1865 and 1908 when the U.S. considered expanding its influence in such diverse places as Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Iceland. Consistent with the realist theory of international relations, he argues that the President and his administration tried to increase the country's political influence abroad when they saw an increase in the nation's relative economic power. But they frequently had to curtail their plans for expansion, he shows, because they lacked a strong central government that could harness that economic power for the purposes of foreign policy. America was an unusual power--a strong nation with a weak state. It was not until late in the century, when power shifted from states to the federal government and from the legislative to the executive branch, that leaders in Washington could mobilize the nation's resources for international influence.Zakaria's exploration of this tension between national power and state structure will change how we view the emergence of new powers and deepen our understanding of America's exceptional history.

The editor of Newsweek International since 2001, Fareed Zakaria oversees the magazine's eight editions in Asia, Latin America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. His column, on subjects ranging from terrorism, national security and America's role in the world to the global economy and the rise of China and India, appears in Newsweek, Newsweek International and The Washington Post. His international bestseller, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, explains how democracy has changed every aspect of our lives, from economics and technology to politics and social relations. Zakaria is the host of Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. He also is a political analyst for ABC News.

Donald Trump's admirers and critics would probably agree on one thing: he is different. One of his chief Republican supporters, Newt Gingrich, describes him as a "unique, extraordinary experience." And of course, in some ways - his celebrity, his flexibility with the facts - Trump is unusual. But in an important sense, he is not: Trump is part of a broad populist upsurge running through the Western world. It can be seen in countries of widely varying circumstances, from prosperous Sweden to crisis-ridden Greece. In most, populism remains an opposition movement, although one that is growing in strength; in others, such as Hungary, it is now the reigning ideology. But almost everywhere, populism has captured the public's attention."Populism on the March" is from the November/December 2016 issue of Foreign Affairs.

Viviamo tempi rivoluzionari. Ovunque si guardi, si riscontrano mutamenti radicali e forse irreversibili. L'assetto internazionale degli ultimi trent'anni si è dissolto e nuovi protagonisti - in particolare la Cina e la Russia - si sono affacciati sulla scena geopolitica minacciandone gli equilibri e la stabilità in nome di un diverso ordine mondiale. All'interno delle nazioni, i populismi sembrano minare il progetto liberale e le fondamenta stesse della democrazia. Sul piano economico, alcuni effetti deleteri della globalizzazione hanno messo in discussione il generale consenso attorno al libero mercato, mentre la rivoluzione digitale, con l'avvento dell'intelligenza artificiale, sta delineando scenari sconosciuti e inquietanti. Dopo decenni di apertura, cooperazione e integrazione, il risorgere dei nazionalismi e l'antagonismo tra le grandi potenze, nonché il conflitto esistenziale tra paesi democratici e autocrazie, lasciano presagire un futuro denso di incognite. Nonostante l'ampiezza e la simultaneità di queste trasformazioni, la nostra non è certo la prima epoca rivoluzionaria della storia. Altre rivoluzioni, in passato, hanno travolto società e istituzioni, ordinamenti politici e sistemi quella liberale dei Paesi Bassi del XVII secolo, che ha creato la politica così come oggi la conosciamo, la Rivoluzione francese, con i suoi ideali di libertà, uguaglianza e fraternità, ma anche con la sua eredità di sangue, la rivoluzione industriale, che ha plasmato il mondo in cui viviamo. Secondo l'analista politico Fareed Zakaria - per «Foreign Policy» uno dei «dieci pensatori globali» più importanti dell'ultimo decennio - queste rivoluzioni sono rilevanti perché possono aiutarci a capire i cambiamenti in atto. Infatti, se a ogni progresso corrisponde una battuta d'arresto, se a ogni azione segue una reazione, oggi il rischio più grande che possiamo correre è quello di vedere compromessa l'idea di libertà che da almeno quattro secoli rappresenta il cuore dell'Occidente. Affrontare l'era delle rivoluzioni impedendo che le lancette della democrazia tornino indietro è la sfida che ci attende.

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L'heure est grave. Mais nous pouvons encore choisir dans quelle direction aller. Même s'il n'est jamais facile de s'écarter des chemins tout tracés, le bouleversement actuel laisse entrevoir un changement possible. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que rien n'est écrit, et qu'il est encore temps de reconstruire l'avenir." Il y a des décennies où rien ne se passe ; et il y a des semaines où des décennies se produisent " Lénine (1870-1924).Le " monde d'après " n'a fait que renforcer des tendances déjà présentes. Il est désormais clair que le développement humain crée des risques toujours plus grands. Tout autour de nous, la nature proteste : incendies de forêts, ouragans, pandémies, et cela ne fait peut-être que commencer.Pour toutes ces raisons la croissance économique sera ralentie. Les inégalités vont s'aggraver, et partout les riches deviendront encore plus riches. Les machines deviennent tellement intelligentes que, pour la première fois dans l'histoire de l'humanité, nous pourrions bien perdre le contrôle de nos propres créations. Les pays se referment sur eux-mêmes, optant pour l'isolationnisme. Les États-Unis et la Chine s'orientent vers une confrontation âpre et prolongée.L'heure est grave. Mais nous pouvons encore choisir dans quelle direction aller. Même s'il n'est jamais facile de s'écarter des chemins tout tracés, le bouleversement actuel laisse entrevoir un changement possible. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que rien n'est écrit, et qu'il est encore temps de reconstruire l'avenir.

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Tương lai của Tự Dân chủ phi tự do trong nước và trên thế giới (The Future of Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad) là một tác phẩm nổi tiếng của Fareed Zakaria. Tác phẩm này phân tích các yếu tố cần có để phát triển nền dân chủ tự do, và những điểm lợi hại để xây dựng dân chủ thay vì là tự do. Đã từ lâu người ta vẫn ca tụng chế độ tự do dân chủ và cho rằng hai quan niệm đó đi đôi với nhau và bổ túc cho nhau. Nhưng trong tác phẩm này Zakaria đã mạnh dạn đưa ra quan điểm cho rằng tự do đang bị đe dọa bởi dân chủ. Hiện tượng này đang diễn ra không những tại Mỹ mà ngay cả trên thế giới. Theo tài liệu Index of Democracy 2012 của The Economist Intelligence Unit, năm 2012, hơn một nửa các quốc gia trên thế giới có chế độ gọi là dân chủ, nhưng chỉ có 15% là thực sự có dân chủ còn gần 1/3 các quốc gia trên thế giới sống dước chế độ chuyên chế. Zakaria phân tích các yếu tố khiến cho dân chủ tự do có thể phát triển và những ưu và khuyết điểm của phương thức quá đặt nặng dân chủ hơn tự do trong công cuộc xây dựng một xã hội ổn định. Dựa trên kinh nghiệm của Nam Hàn, tác giả đưa ra nhận định rằng một chế độ chuyên chế sáng suốt và phóng khoáng có thể giúp tiến tới một chế độ dân chủ tự do. Ông còn mạnh dạn cho rằng một chế độ dân chủ tự do được thành lập theo đường lối này có nhiều triển vọng thành công và bền vững hơn là đường lối dân chủ hóa trước và tự do hóa sau.