Fareed Zakaria
Autor/a de The Post-American World
Sobre l'autor
Fareed Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India on January 20, 1964. He received a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science in 1993 from Harvard University. He was the managing editor of Foreign Affairs before becoming the editor of Newsweek International in 2000. He writes a weekly mostra'n més foreign affairs column in the publication and also has a weekly show on CNN called Fareed Zakaria GPS. Prior to that he worked as a news analyst from 2002 to 2007 on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and hosted the weekly show Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. He is the author of several books including The Future of Freedom, The Post-American World, and In Defense of a Liberal Education. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Credit: Larry D. Moore, Oct. 30, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
Obres de Fareed Zakaria
KÜMME ÕPPETUNDI PANDEEMIAJÄRGSELE MAAILMALE 3 exemplars
Why Its Different This Time (Time Feb 24, 2011) 1 exemplars
The Post-American World 2.0 (Unabridged) Part 1 1 exemplars
The Post-American World 2.0 (Unabridged) Part 2 1 exemplars
Review of The retreat of western liberalism by Edward Luce - What happens when liberty fails to deliver? 1 exemplars
Dez Lições Para o Mundo Pós-Pandemia 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Zakaria, Fareed Rafiq
- Data de naixement
- 1964-01-20
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- India (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Lloc de naixement
- Mumbai, India
- Llocs de residència
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- Harvard University (PhD | Government | 1993)
Yale College (AB | 1986) - Professions
- journalist
political commentator - Relacions
- Huntington Samuel P. (teacher)
Hoffmann, Stanley (teacher)
Throckmorton, Paula (wife) - Organitzacions
- Foreign Affairs
Newsweek
The Washington Post
CNN
Time - Agent
- Tina Bennett
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 16
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 3,946
- Popularitat
- #6,406
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 83
- ISBN
- 96
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 9
First off, this book is nonfiction, written by Fareed Zakaria (Indian/American) journalist, works for CNN and Washington Post. He is a political person and identifies as a centrist; Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to the left or the right. This book is a commentary of democracy and constitutionalism and the many forms of democracy. Illiberal Democracy restricts freedom of thought and behavior. The US was a constitutionalism country originally but that has been eroded over the years. This book covers all the problems with the US political system and how there really is no two party system. It is a system run by special interest and polls and how a lot of reform has actually caused the many losses to the original ideas that the country was founded on. The author also covers in depth all the countries of the world and the forms of government and what he considers the deciding factors of freedom. Easy money whether it is oil based or money given to countries by other countries does not promote movement toward freedom for the people. The book also covers religion; Christianity, secularism, Islam and its affect on government and governments effects on it.
I found it an interesting book but I can't say that I understood it. I do think there were gems but on the other hand, you can't pin any one thought down. The author does not like to take sides but rather provides information. I ended up feeling that there really is no hope of turning things around here in the US and voting really doesn't offer any leverage to influence change. Published in 2004 and still pretty much describes things as they continue to be.… (més)