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Hi, I'm Ravia Grawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chchief. This is FP Live.

Happy holidays. Wherever you are in the world, I hope you're with family and you are getting

some rest. What a year it's been. From the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, elections in India and

America and everywhere else, dictators ousted in Syria

and Bangladesh, we have covered it all here at FP Live. Today, I wanted to take a step back

and look at some of the bigger picture trends. At the end of every year, it's become an FP

tradition to invite one big thinker to join us for a twofer,

looking back and then gazing ahead. This one is the first of those two episodes.

News moves quickly these days, so I should make clear we taped this interview on Tuesday,

December 17th. My guest this year is Fareed Zakaria. In 2020, FP named him among its top 10

global thinkers of the last decade for his books, columns, and shows. I helped make that decision,

and part of it was because some of Farid's biggest ideas have really endured, whether it's the idea of the rise of the rest

in a post-American world, or the notion of illiberal democracies and how that could be the future

of freedom as we know it. Farid's got an uncanny knack of synthesizing trends like no one else

I know. So enjoy the ride in part one of this two-part discussion.

As always, we love hearing from you.

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