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By zakarias account, americas strength will lie in freedom and diversityand the postamerican era may not last all that long, since americas population is growing, and growing younger, while the demographics of asia and europe are largely pointing to older populations and, in time, fewer workers. Sep 28, 2015 the postamerican world by fareed zakaria in doc, fb2, txt download e book. The new york times photographer doug mills took the photo in may 2008 while obama was campaigning in montana and later published it. He sees the rise of the rest as the great story of our time. Since its publication, the trends zakaria identified have proceeded faster than anyone could have anticipated. The information about the postamerican world release 2.
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