"This is a relentlessly intelligent book that eschews simple-minded projections from crisis to collapse...Zakaria's is not another exercise in declinism."
"Mr. Zakaria is illuminating and right: The 'rise of the rest' represents the triumph of the liberal international order that America has championed in war and peace."
"...a provocative and often shrewd take that opens a big picture window on the closing of the first American century and the advent of a new world in which 'the rest rise, and the West wanes.'"
"Zakaria, who is judicious, reasonable, smooth, intelligent...points out that, aside from some pockets of backwardness, the whole world has been getting much richer. Global capitalism has been a huge success."