Newsweek posts a contrarian article about how things are going in the world, The Rise of the Rest. Despite food riots and terrorism, things are going pretty well, according to Fareed Zakaria:
In 2006 and 2007, 124 countries grew their economies at over 4 percent a year. That includes more than 30 countries in Africa. Over the last two decades, lands outside the industrialized West have been growing at rates that were once unthinkable. While there have been booms and busts, the overall trend has been unambiguously upward.
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The post-American world is naturally an unsettling prospect for Americans, but it should not be. This will not be a world defined by the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else. It is the result of a series of positive trends that have been progressing over the last 20 years, trends that have created an international climate of unprecedented peace and prosperity.
Though part of me chafes at believing it to be a foregone conclusion, American dominance appears to be ending.
That doesn't mean American leadership has to end. That's a useful distinction.
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