Fareed Zakaria is host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, editor at large of TIME, and a Washington Post columnist. From 2000 to 2010, Dr. Zakaria was the editor of Newsweek International, overseeing all of Newsweek's editions abroad, and from 1992-2000, he was managing editor of Foreign Affairs. He is the author of From Wealth To Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, and The Post-American World. Dr. Zakaria has won several awards for his columns and other writing. He currently serves as a trustee of Yale University and is based in New York, NY.
For the U.S. economy to reach its full potential, argues Edward Conard, Washington should decrease federal spending and ease government regulation. Fareed Zakaria demurs, contending that structural reform and government investment are what the U.S. economy needs most.
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A panel of experts discuss the new HBO documentary film, Manhunt, which details the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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A panel of experts discuss the new HBO documentary film, Manhunt, which details the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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A panel of experts discuss the new HBO documentary film, Manhunt, which details the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Moisés Naím and Fareed Zakaria discuss the transformation of power and what this means for U.S. primacy and how it conducts foreign policy.
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Moisés Naím and Fareed Zakaria discuss the transformation of power and what this means for U.S. primacy and how it conducts foreign policy.
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Moisés Naím and Fareed Zakaria discuss the transformation of power and what this means for U.S. primacy and how it conducts foreign policy.
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The crisis of democracy identified in the 1970s never really went away; it was just papered over with temporary solutions and obscured by a series of lucky breaks.
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Fareed Zakaria writes on, after decades of American reluctance on pressing political reform in Egypt, how democracy might work in the region.
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Fareed Zakaria argues that although the Pakistani military has pledged to fight the spread of the Taliban in the country, it has yet to sever its core relationship with the militants.
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We don't have to accept the stoning of criminals. But it's time to stop treating all Islamists as potential terrorists, Fareed Zakaria argues in this op-ed.
Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria explains that the Israeli offensive in Gaza has not damaged Iran's strategic interests, but rather has strengthened the influence of war hawks in Tehran.
Al Gore, former vice president of the United States, tells Fareed Zakaria that whatever assistance the auto industry gets "should be focused on speeding the changes that are absolutely essential to ensure that our companies are competitive in the global marketplace."
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The Bright Side. Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria writes that we're in for tough times. But amid all the difficulties and hardship that we are about to undergo, the silver lining may be that the crisis has forced the United States to confront the bad habits it has developed over the last few decades.
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In a meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations, the UK's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband, shares his views on Western opportunity, and rising world powers.
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Watch British Foreign Minister David Miliband discuss Transatlantic relations, developments in the Middle East, and other foreign policy issues of mutual concern to Britain and the United States.
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Listen to British Foreign Minister David Miliband discuss transatlantic relations, developments in the Middle East, and other foreign policy issues of mutual concern to Britain and the United States.
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To say that this new China is the same as the old is to be utterly ignorant or ideological—perhaps both.
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Despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences. Britain's decline was driven by bad economics. The United States, in contrast, has the strength and dynamism to continue shaping the world -- but only if it can overcome its political dysfunction and reorient U.S. policy for a world defined by the rise of other powers.
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Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria argues that public humiliation does not work nearly as well on the regime in Beijing as private pressure.
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