Gerard Baker
The Rise of the Rest
The Post-American World
By Fareed Zakaria
Allen Lane/The Penguin Press 292pp £20 order from our bookshop
Zhou Enlai is famously supposed to have observed that the passage of two centuries provided insufficient historical perspective from which to judge the consequences of the French Revolution.
Fareed Zakaria is unencumbered by such modesty. He doesn’t need 200 years to elapse before feeling confident enough to make sweeping judgements. He reckons he can spot the arrival of a whole new epoch barely half a decade after it has started.
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