Zakaria's Analysis: World Views

When the world famous liberal thinker Francis Fukuyama in his masterpiece declared that we were witnessing the end of the history, he was greeting the new political structure and also the new international environment, which is peaceful[1]. However, developments that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed us that the dissolution of the Soviets was unexpected. The international society was not ready for peace and Fukuyama’s optimistic assumptions were far from becoming real. Moreover, the international society currently started to realise that the tension and the potential of mass destructive war during the Cold War era had provided a

Foreign and domestic policies are not linear, rather the policies are connected in a circle, with each policy reinforcing the values of another. Domestic American terrorism in the prison and detention systems and governmental reforms are influenced by the mobilization and ethnocentrism abroad. The militarization internationally is justified by the domestic handling of the same cultural issues within the United State borders. The United States has strangely used a near Catch-22 to handle dilemmas. The United States has allowed perspective to become reality, whether with oneself or regarding issues abroad, specifically in the Middle East. Terrorism is the use or threat of fear for political or economical gain. An internal characteristic of terrorism is how dependent it is of perspective, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. To understand “terrorism,” a focus must be applied to the history, what drove an organization to commit such acts. Respectively, the Middle East has been a hotbed for the key word “terrorism,” especially because of 9/11. Subsequently, Muslims have been stigmatized by the United States as terrorists. The consequences spawned because of 9/11 require a look to the past to understand the present.

Many Americans do not understand the implication and role of terrorism in the modern world. Terrorism is not a something that can be measured or held in hand. It is a theoretical idea that has many different meanings to many different people (Aziz, 2014). U.S. Citizens in general need to understand the full effect of modern terrorism. Blinded by media coverage and dramatized by slow-motion video replay of terrorist attacks,

Since the late 1980s America has been considered the superpower of the world. Most of all Americans still believe that the United States is economically the epitome of the globe. However, those Americans should be informed that the United States has entered the era of a global economy, where the “rest” of the countries are making extreme gains on America’s once held dominance. For many years all roads led to Washington, now they also run to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Toronto. In Fareed Zakaria’s essay “The Rise of the Rest”, Zakaria employs a strong collaboration between what he claims as fact and how he appeals to the reader’s sense of logic. Zakaria uses this strategy of logos and facts multiple times to further his argument: The giant

There are faults within Zakaria’s argument. Throughout the book, assumptions are made on the likelihood of the prosperous future of the U.S. and emerging powers. These predictions are based on assumptions, therefore lack solid evidence. Zakaria builds his argument based on the assumption that America “will remain a vital, vibrant economy at the forefront of the next revolutions in science, technology and industry” (Zakaria 182). Although there are some statistics that can support this assumption, the future remains unpredictable. Furthermore, Zakaria weakens his credibility by including personal opinions in the book. Particularly the claims made towards India give insight to his bias towards India over China. Zakaria has undermined the economic

Political upheaval is defined by Harff an abrupt change in the political community caused by the formation of a state or regime through violent conflict, redrawing of a state boundaries, or defeat in international war. In other words, it is a violent and sudden disturbance in government or politics. This is proven because “all genocides of the last half-century occurred during or in the immediate aftermath of internal wars, revolutions, and regime collapse” (57). She also explains that the ideologies that start revolutions can also encourage ethnic hatred which provides a motive for mass killings of the perceived enemies of the new order that comes into

The idea that Steven Pinker discussed in his Ted Talk was that over time our world has become a more peaceful place to reside in. Breaking his evidence down into the viewpoint of millenniums, centuries, and decades, he utilized mortality rates due to warfare, homicide, and death penalty. Furthermore, Pinker analyzes the history of warfare from a social perspective that investigates the effect that anarchy, the value of life, and the expanding of one’s circle of acceptance.

In Fareed Zakaria's book "In Defense of a Liberal Education" he states that, the idea of a broadbased "liberal" education is closely tied to the United States and its great universities and colleges. In america itself, aa liberal education is out of favor. Everyone is talking about skill based learning. few defenders of classic liberal education. Students majoring in English and Philosophy has declined sharply. 1.8 percent of all undergraduates attend classic liberal arts colleges. Everyone eager to promote the type of education that might lead directly yo a job. America was distinctive in providing an education to all that was not skills based. Americans moved constantly in search of new opportunities. Few wanted to lock themselves into

The most tearful and saddest day is the September 11, 2011. If I was in that day during that event, kids like myself going to school and only put themselves glued to a television screen or all the news of the radio to hear horror story as two air planes rammed themselves into the World Trade Center. For those who were students, it was a vision that they cannot comprehend as people were screaming and begging for help on the ground while those who was in those building at that time of the attack jumped off to get a quick death. And for children at those moments, when they went home, they could not see their parents, their brothers and sisters. After few days passed by, they realize that their family was passed away. They lost their family within few moments and they became orphans; they did not understand how this event would end up being a wakeup call for everyone in the world; and this day will mark the moment of events in United Stated history where regulations on security in airports. Not only airports, many other public locations will change the way of thinking with this society nowadays. And few years later passed by, those children who have become adults now think the world in a different scope compared to what it was years ago, and along with those changes created a new generation that brings out the different outlooks and opinions on how the world should react when facing

There are moments in our history where the citizens of the world stand up and for their beliefs, their honor, and themselves. They come together to reform the existing government that is holding them back from achieving their desired lifestyle. When this occurs, most likely, war is inevitable to follow. When war comes to a country, death and destruction is destined. Leaders and rules change, but the pride of its citizens prevails and becomes

Zakaria started his speech on how the American people are exhibiting “fear and anxiety” for the world. The reason why the people are feeling this way is because they are grasping what the current situation of the world is. This feeling of discomfort is coming from the idea that the world system isn’t as vibrant as it used

The article “Explaining the Severity of Civil Wars” by Bethany Lacina looks at why some civil wars are more deadly as compared to others by investigating a new data set that shows the number of combat deaths in civil wars from 1946 to 2002. The article looks at the statistics behind the deaths in the conflicts such as the era, the type of conflict ant the region that the conflict takes place in. The article also uses the strength of the state, the type of regime and cultural characteristics in a test to see if they are predictors for the number of combat deaths in a conflict.

The 20th century was marked by many wars and rebellious events with the millions of human victims among solders and civilians; nevertheless, political leaders do not change their tactics. The issue of the armaments race is on the agenda in the 21st century, and there are still wars for the territory, strategic natural resources, power, leadership, and domination on the world map with a complete absence of the respect to cultural and territorial borders among neighboring countries, anarchy, and violence inside a country when people want to assert their rights or express the protest to politicians.

From this book Zakaria has taught me and all of of his other readers that big changes are coming. That history as we know it is slowly being rewritten as we know it. That what was seen as impossible even 10 years ago is a reality and we are living through it, how exciting! The United States won’t be the main superpower of the world, countries we would never expect to rise economically are rising the superpower penthouse is growing. Zaharia believes this Post-American world will

Kegley and Raymond stated: “The shape of the world’s future will be determined not only by changes in the objective conditions of world politics, but also by the meanings people ascribe to these conditions.” Terrorism is presently a major factor in international relations and has impacted the world to change in many significant ways. Terrorism is a political ideology that has been problematic in defining definitely because of its various interpretations around the world, as well as the fact that it is constantly evolving. Since the terrorist events of 9/11, the lives of many have been changed forever. A small group of individuals, which are a mere fraction of the population of the world, have managed to impact and shape the way international and domestic relations are looked at and handled. People question how secure and safe they feel due to uncertainty of public safety because of events such as 9/11. The war on terrorism in the 21st century has certainly and inevitably changed the landscape for global politics. However, the relationship between terrorism and global politics is troublesome and in ways problematic to describe accurately. Both terrorism and global politics individually are complicated phenomenon. It is erroneous to propose that one is responsible for the other or vice versa, but they are inextricably and inevitably linked. In the study of international relations, there are multiple theories and theoretical perspectives. In this essay, realism and liberalism