The Post-American World

Journalist Fareed Zakaria argues that the defining story of the age is not American decline but the rise of the rest: China, India, Brazil, Russia and other countries gaining ground. He sees three great power shifts over five centuries: the ascent of the West, then of the United States, and now the spread of power to several surging countries and to non-governmental actors. America, he contends, still leads in political and military power, but its relative weight is shrinking, and Washington must move from dominating hegemon to an honest broker that shares power and builds coalitions. The updated Release 2.0 edition takes in the financial crisis and the surge of emerging markets in the same years.

It appears among the non-fiction reads in a roundup of every book Barack Obama recommended during his presidency.