Summary: In this final section of the book, Zakaria focused mainly on America’s strengths and weaknesses. The last chapter was mostly about what America was doing wrong as a super power and what it needed to do to continue its power. Zakaria also talked a lot about how the rest of the world’s view of American’s is not what we think it is.
Major Claim: “The United States should be thinking creatively and asymmetrically” (Zakaria 246).
Response: Through this major claim, Zakaria is saying that the US needs to think “outside the box” in order to really be a great nation. Instead of doing things the way we’ve done them for a hundred years, we need to start being creative in the way we run our country. The things we are doing in our economy may have worked really well a hundred years ago, but they aren’t providing the same affect now that they did then. We also should be running our foreign policy the way we have been because as other nation’s rise up closer to our level, they need us to get involved in their personal affairs less and less. He is saying that the people in Washington need to stop worrying about keeping what has worked for a hundred years and start thinking of new ways to help our country grow to its greatest potential.
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