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Asian businessmen peered at BlackBerries, Bangladeshi migrant workers tried to sleep under the seats that line the concourses, Chinese tour groups milled around the shops, Somali mothers chided recalcitrant children. In his new book The Post-American World (Alien Lane), Fareed Zakaria refers to "the rise of the rest", pointing to a more profound change which is already altering not just the world economy, but diplomacy and culture.
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Power Shifts From the West to the Rest
Earlier this year, passing through Dubai Airport on my way from China to Africa, I contemplated the giant terminal's restless, shifting population.
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