Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria in 2007
Born	January 20, 1964 (1964-01-20) (age 44) Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Journalist, Columnist, Editor
Nationality	United States
Genres	Non-fiction
Subjects	Geopolitics
Official website http://fareedzakaria.com

Fareed Zakaria (born January 20, 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial Maharashtra ( Marathi: mahārāṣṭra, IPA) is a state located on the western coast of India. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media

He was named editor of Newsweek International in October 2000. Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. October 2000: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for Newsweek, which appears biweekly in the Washington Post. In 2003, his book The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Norton) was published. The Future of Freedom Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a Liberal democracy to flourish

On television, Zakaria hosted the weekly Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria news show for PBS. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the From 2002 until 2007, he was a regular member of the roundtable of ABC News's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and an analyst for ABC News. This Week is one of the five network US Sunday morning political talk shows. This article is about the American news organization See also ABC News (disambiguation ABC News is a division of American In the fall of 2007, he joined CNN to host a weekly show, called Fareed Zakaria GPS (Global Public Square), on international affairs that premiered worldwide on June 1, 2008.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Views 4 Iraq War views 5 Participation in Wolfowitz meeting 6 Personal 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 External links

Early life

Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India. Mumbai ( Marathi:,, IPA: formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a former government minister, deputy leader of the Congress party and a respected scholar. Rafiq Zakaria ( April 5, 1920, Nala Sopara &mdash July 9, 2005, Mumbai Indian National Congress-I (also known as the Congress Party and abbreviated INC) is a major Political party in India. His mother, Fatima Zakaria, was for a time the Sunday editor of the Times of India. The Times of India ( TOI) is a leading English-language Broadsheet Daily newspaper in India. His brother Arshad is a former head of investment banking at Merrill Lynch and is currently the head of New Vernon Capital, the largest hedge fund investing in India. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc () is a global financial services firm His two other siblings, a brother Mansoor and a sister Tasneem, are from his father's first marriage.

Zakaria attended the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, India, where he was School Prefect and House Captain for Palmer, one of the four school Houses. The Cathedral & John Connon School is a prestigious Co-educational, Private school located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. After graduating from the Anglican school, Zakaria attended Yale University where he was a member of Berkeley college, Scroll and Key Society, President of the Yale Political Union, and a member of the Party of the Right. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University, constructed in 1934 Scroll and Key Society is a senior or secret society established by " John Porter, William Kingsley Samuel Perkins Enos Taft Lebbeus Chapin George Jackson Parties The Union is an umbrella organization that currently contains seven Parties the Liberal Party (Lib the Party of the Left (PoL the Progressive Party (Prog the Independent Zakaria received a B.A. from Yale and later graduated with a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems Samuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is an American political scientist who gained prominence through his " Clash of Civilizations Stanley Hoffmann (born 1928 is the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor at Harvard University.

Career

Before his current position with Newsweek, Zakaria was managing editor of the magazine Foreign Affairs, a journal of international politics and economics. Foreign Affairs is an influential American Journal on International relations published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR

Prior to joining Foreign Affairs, Zakaria ran a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard University. The foreign policy of the United States is highly influential on the world stage as it is a Superpower. He has taught courses in international relations and political philosophy at Harvard, Columbia and Case Western universities. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland Ohio, United States, with some residence halls on the south end of campus He has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and The New Republic, and has also worked as a wine columnist for the webzine Slate. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts Slate is an English-language online current affairs and culture Magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael ^[1] His 2002 essay for The New Yorker on America's global role has been widely quoted, as have several of his Newsweek cover-essays. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry

He is the author of the 1998 book From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role (Princeton University Press), his PhD thesis, and co-editor of The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books). The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. His book The Future of Freedom was published in the spring of 2003 and became a New York Times bestseller, as well as a bestseller in several other countries. The Future of Freedom Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a Liberal democracy to flourish The New York Times Best Seller List is widely considered to be the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It has been translated into more than eighteen languages. His most recent book, published in May 2008, is The Post-American World, an examination of America's role in a world where it is still the political-military superpower but where economic, industrial, financial, and cultural power is being dispersed around the world. The Post-American World is a book by Indian American journalist Fareed Zakaria.

In April 2005, Zakaria premiered as host of a new foreign affairs program on PBS, Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the

During the December 28th, 2007 airing of his program Zakaria announced his retirement from Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria to pursue other broadcast opportunities. ^[2] The new host is Daljit Dhaliwal. Daljit Dhaliwal (born 1962 in London, United Kingdom) is a British Newsreader and Television presenter

Zakaria has won several awards for his Newsweek columns, including for his October 2001 cover story, "The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us". Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. ^[3] In 1999, he was named "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century" by Esquire. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition In 2005, he won the World Affairs Councils of America's International Journalist Award. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The World Affairs Councils of America (sometimes referred to as WACA) is a Nonprofit, Non-partisan international affairs organization in In 2006, he was named one of the 100 most influential graduates of Harvard University. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. He currently serves on the boards of Yale University, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, New America Foundation and Columbia University's International House. The Trilateral Commission is a private organization established to foster closer cooperation between America Europe and Japan The Council on Foreign Relations ( CFR) is an American Nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (at The New America Foundation is a non-profit Public policy institute and Think tank located in Washington D Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League.

Views

Zakaria is generally regarded as a political moderate or centrist. In foreign policy terms, he is a "realist" (i. Realism, also known as political realism, in the context of International relations, encompasses a variety of theories and approaches all of which share a belief e. someone who believes that American foreign policy should be guided by a conception of its national interest). This article is about the generic foreign affairs term See The National Interest for the political journal His first book, From Wealth to Power, argues that countries that grow rich and powerful inevitably expand their sphere of interests abroad. He sees America as a reluctant great power in the late 19th century because it was a strange creature — a strong nation with a very weak central state.

Zakaria is an advocate of free markets, both at home and abroad. He believes that America should embrace globalization and free trade. He is an internationalist, writing consistently in favor of American engagement with the world, multilateralism, and efforts to help alleviate global poverty and disease. He has often argued that helping countries to modernize their economies and societies is a more secure path to development and liberty than pushing for elections and democracy.

His second book, The Future of Freedom, develops this latter theme more fully. The Future of Freedom Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a Liberal democracy to flourish Zakaria argues that democracy works best in societies when it is preceded by "constitutional liberalism," which he defines as the rule of law, rights of property, contract, and individual freedoms. Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system This article is about John Rawls's book 'Political Liberalism The rule of law, in its most basic form is the principle that no one is above the law Property is any physical or virtual entity that is owned by an individual A contract is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do or refrain from doing an act which is enforceable in a court of law He has written that historically liberty has preceded democracy, not the other way around. He has argued that countries that simply hold elections without broad-based modernization — including economic liberalization and the rule of law — end up becoming "illiberal democracies". For this reason, he has been critical of the manner in which the Bush administration has pushed its democracy agenda forward, relying on elections in Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon as the solution to those countries' problems and minimizing the building of the institutions of law, governance, and liberty.

After the 9/11 attacks, Zakaria wrote a seminal cover-story essay for Newsweek entitled "The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us?". In it, he argued that Islamic terrorism has its roots in the stagnation and dysfunctions of the Arab world. Decades of failure under tyrannical regimes, all claiming to be Western-style secular modernizers, has produced an opposition that is religious, violent, and increasingly globalized. Because the Mosque is the one place where people can gather in an Arab country, that is where the opposition to these regimes grew. Because Islam was the one language that could not be censored, it became the language of opposition. He argued for a generational effort to create more open and dynamic societies in the Arab world, thereby helping "Islam enter the modern world".

In a June 11, 2007 cover essay, Zakaria criticizes "fear-based" policies on terrorism, immigration, and trade, and argues that beyond George W. Bush the world needs an open and confident United States. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[4]

Iraq War views

While Zakaria initially supported using military force against Iraq, he argued for a United Nations-sanctioned operation and occupation with a much larger force (approximately 400,000 troops). The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing Military campaign The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security He also called for a Bosnia- or Kosovo-style occupation that was international, rather than American, in nature. Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Latin script: Bosna i Hercegovina, Cyrillic script: Босна и Херцеговина is a country on the Balkan He wrote a Newsweek cover-essay the week the Iraq war began entitled "The Arrogant Empire", which detailed the failures of the Bush foreign policy in the run-up to the war.

He was an early and aggressive critic of the occupation, arguing against the disbanding of the Iraqi army and bureaucracy, which the administration accomplished under the guise of "de-Baathification". The Arab Socialist Ba'th Party (also spelled Baath or Ba'ath; Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي was founded in Damascus He predicted that accelerating the build-up of the Iraqi military would create a Shia and Kurdish army that would exacerbate the sectarian tensions in the country. Four months into the occupation, his columns bore such titles as "Iraq Policy Is Broken," and in September 2003 he wrote a cover story for Newsweek entitled "So What's Plan B?" In February of 2005, the week before Iraq's elections, he wrote, "no matter how the voting turns out, the prospects for genuine democracy in Iraq are increasingly grim. " In his October 2006 Newsweek cover essay, Zakaria called for a reduction in American troops in Iraq to 60,000 by the end of 2007.

Participation in Wolfowitz meeting

In his 2006 book State of Denial, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward wrote that, on November 29, 2001, a meeting of Middle East experts and analysts was convened at the request of then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. "State of Denial" redirects here For the documentary film about AIDS see State of Denial (film. Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. Events 1777 - San Jose California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U The outcome of the meeting was a report for President George W. Bush concerning American policy toward Afghanistan and the Middle East in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, a report that supported the subsequent invasion of Iraq. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1 2003 was spearheaded by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia Zakaria told The New York Times that he attended the meeting for a few hours but that he "thought it was a brainstorming session" and did not recall being told that a report for the President would be produced. ^[5]

On October 21, 2006, after verification, the Times published a correction that stated:

An article in Business Day on Oct. Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 9 about journalists who attended a secret meeting in November 2001 called by Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense, referred incorrectly to the participation of Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and a Newsweek columnist. Mr. Zakaria was not told that the meeting would produce a report for the Bush administration, nor did his name appear on the report.

Personal

He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Paula Throckmorton Zakaria, son Omar, and daughters Lila and Sofia. The City of New York Zakaria has weighed in on his Muslim background on only one occasion, telling the Village Voice, "I occasionally find myself reluctant to be pulled into a world that's not mine, in the sense that I'm not a religious guy. "^[6]

Bibliography

• The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria, (W. The Post-American World is a book by Indian American journalist Fareed Zakaria. W. Norton & Company; 2008) ISBN 0-393-06235-X
• The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Fareed Zakaria, (W. The Future of Freedom Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a Liberal democracy to flourish W. Norton & Company; 2003) ISBN 0-393-04764-4
• From Wealth to Power, Fareed Zakaria, (Princeton University Press; 1998) ISBN 0-691-04496-1
• The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs, edited by James F. Hoge and Fareed Zakaria, (Basic Books; 1997) ISBN 0-465-00170-X

References

External links

• FareedZakaria.com official site with most of his essays, links to books, etc.
• Foreign Exchange (no longer hosts) weekly television news show/Daljit Dhaliwal now host
• Fareed Zakaria Newsweek Articles
• "The Interpreter" - profile in the Village Voice
• Los Angeles Times Profile
• Mangino, Andrew. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. "Trustee Zakaria '86 found his niche at Yale", Yale Daily News.
• Fareed Zakaria at the Internet Movie Database
• SAJAforum.org Q&A with Fareed Zakaria with Sree Sreenivasan on five-year anniversary of 9/11 attacks
• Washington Post, PostGlobal Moderator
• Sweet Justice - Fareed Zakaria says that German wines get a bad rap
• Man of the World New York magazine profile by Marion Maneker.
• Coverage of his many appearances on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
• Review roundup of "The Post-American World" at SAJAforum. org

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