No subject

[ FAREED ZAKARIA is Editor of Newsweek International. This essay is
adapted from his book The Post-American World (W. W. Norton and
Company, Inc., (c) 2008 by Fareed Zakaria). ]

[...] The world is changing, but it is going the United States' way.
The rest that are rising are embracing markets, democratic government
(of some form or another), and greater openness and transparency. It
might be a world in which the United States takes up less space, but
it is one in which American ideas and ideals are overwhelmingly
dominant. The United States has a window of opportunity to shape and
master the changing global landscape, but only if it first recognizes
that the post-American world is a reality -- and embraces and
celebrates that fact.

Full: <http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080501facomment87303/fareed-zakaria/the-future-of-american-power.html?mode=print>