Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakariais an Indian American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor-at-large of Time. He is the author of five books, three of them international bestsellers, and the co-editor of one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 January 1964
CityMumbai, India
CountryUnited States of America
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
which is not to pick sides but to explain what I think is happening on the ground. I can't say, 'This is my team and I'm going to root for them no matter what they do.'
The big difference is that Bush appears to view foreign policy from the pragmatic, problem-solving perspective and Gore has a somewhat messianic approach. He wants to do sweeping things that will change the world in one fell swoop.
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.
What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.