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Fareed Zakaria On Global Politics, World Events, And Revolutions

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to explaining global politics and world events, few faces are more familiar to viewers than Fareed Zakaria's.

He hosts CNN's international affairs show, "GPS," which debuted in 2008. He's also a best-selling author and columnist for The Washington Post.

And now, he's gathered his insights covering and commenting on world events into a new book called "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the present."

He highlights revolutions past to help us understand the revolutionary moment we're living in.

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Follow on the wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. When it comes to explaining global politics and world events, few faces are more familiar than

0:31.1

for Reed Zakaryas.

0:35.3

This is GPS, the Global Public Square.

0:38.0

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

0:41.0

I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you from New York. Meanwhile in Gaza, the the in the north is imminent. Looking at the crises proliferating around the world,

0:54.0

it's clear that we are in an age of geopolitical tension

0:58.0

that resembles the Cold War,

1:00.3

a time of constant continual threats to international order.

1:05.0

But this time the West is treating each of these threats as one-offs to be dealt with separately in the hope that normalcy will return. But conflict is the new normal.

1:16.0

Look around.

1:18.0

Farid Zakaria hosts the CNN International Affairs Show GPS, The Global Public Square. It debuted in 2008. He's also a

1:26.4

best-selling author and columnist for the Washington Post, and now he's gathered his

1:30.4

insights about world events into a new book called Age of Revolutions, progress

1:35.1

and backlash from 1600 to the present.

1:37.8

It's out this week.

1:39.0

He highlights revolutions of the past to try to help us understand the moment we're living in. We'll get into all that and

1:44.7

more after the break. I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the

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