On 21 May 2008, the New York Times published a photograph of presidential hopeful Barack Obama striding across an airport runway in Bozeman, Montana, with his left index finger inside a copy of Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World. For those hoping that the new American president will help guide his country through a potentially turbulent transition in international politics, that's a good thing, because this is among the most insightful books on our fast-changing world written in the past decade. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm proud to call Fareed Zakaria a friend. But I am far from alone in considering him one of the world's most astute observers of global politics and America's fast-evolving international role. The Post-American World has already earned its author a large audience inside and outside the United States.
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