#xE2;#x80;#x9C;This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.#xE2;#x80;#x9D; So begins Fareed Zakaria#xE2;#x80;#x99;s blockbusting bestseller on the United States in the twenty-first century. How can Americans understand this rapidly changing international climate, and how might the nation continue to thrive in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.