From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent learned
and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York Times Since the end of the
Cold War the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001 the financial
collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric threat set in motion by
something seemingly small and different from anything the world had experienced before. Lenin
is supposed to have said 'There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades
happen.' This is one of those times when history has sped up. In this urgent and timely book
Fareed Zakaria one of the 'top ten global thinkers of the last decade' (Foreign Policy)
foresees the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political social technological and economic
consequences that may take years to unfold. In ten surprising hopeful 'lessons' he writes
about the acceleration of natural and biological risks the obsolescence of the old political
categories of right and left the rise of 'digital life' the future of globalization and an
emerging world order split between the United States and China. He invites us to think about
how we are truly social animals with community embedded in our nature and above all the
degree to which nothing is written - the future is truly in our own hands. Ten Lessons for a
Post-Pandemic World speaks to past present and future and will become an enduring reflection
on life in the early twenty-first century.
