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ⓘ About Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria is a political and economics commentator, journalist, and author. Outside of his writings, he is best known for his work as a journalist, particularly his program “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, where he takes a deeper look into pertinent issues in the world. A man of many talents, he is also a columnist for The Washington Post and Newsweek, and an editor at Time and Newsweek International. He was born to a Muslim family in India, to a politician named Rafiq Zakaria, who was better known as an Islamic theologian. As for his mother’s talents, the story is that his mother once edited the “Sunday Times of India.” As a child, he went to the Mumbai-based “Cathedral and John Connon School” before he proceeded to graduate from “Yale” with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.
All Book Series by Fareed Zakaria
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Latest in the series · book 7 of 7 · published 2024
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Series opener · book 1 of 61 · published 1992 Anthology · Wilson D. Miscamble
Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange
Book 2 of 61 · published 1992 Anthology · Kenneth A. Oye
A Certain Idea of France
Book 5 of 61 · published 1993 Anthology · Phillip H. Gordon
We All Lost the Cold War
Book 7 of 61 · published 1994 Anthology · Richard Ned Lebow,Janice Gross Stein
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
Book 8 of 61 · published 1994 Anthology · Hendrik Spruyt
Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns
Book 9 of 61 · published 1994 Anthology · Janice E. Thomson
Cooperation among Democracies
Book 12 of 61 · published 1995 Anthology · Thomas Risse-Kappen
Cultural Realism
Book 13 of 61 · published 1995 Anthology · Alastair Iain Johnston
The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War
Book 14 of 61 · published 1995 Anthology · David G. Herrmann
Useful Adversaries
Book 16 of 61 · published 1996 Anthology · Thomas J. Christensen
Regional Orders at Century's Dawn
Book 19 of 61 · published 1998 Anthology · Etel Solingen
A Constructed Peace
Book 20 of 61 · published 1999 Anthology · Marc Trachtenberg
The Moral Purpose of the State
Book 21 of 61 · published 1999 Anthology · Christian Reus-Smit
Stay the Hand of Vengeance
Book 23 of 61 · published 2000 Anthology · Gary Jonathan Bass
States and Power in Africa
Book 24 of 61 · published 2000 Anthology · Jeffrey Herbst
Revolutions in Sovereignty
Book 27 of 61 · published 2001 Anthology · Daniel Philpott
Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare
Book 28 of 61 · published 2001 Anthology · Tami Davis Biddle
Legitimacy and Power Politics
Book 29 of 61 · published 2002 Anthology · Mlada Bukovansky
Driving the Soviets up the Wall
Book 30 of 61 · published 2003 Anthology · Hope M. Harrison
Producing Security
Book 31 of 61 · published 2005 Anthology · Stephen G. Brooks
Unanswered Threats
Book 32 of 61 · published 2006 Anthology · Randall L. Schweller
The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
Book 34 of 61 · published 2007 Anthology · Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Social States
Book 36 of 61 · published 2007 Anthology · Alastair Iain Johnston
Strong Borders, Secure Nation
Book 37 of 61 · published 2008 Anthology · M. Taylor Fravel
The Sino-Soviet Split
Book 38 of 61 · published 2008 Anthology · Lorenz M. Lüthi
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
Book 39 of 61 · published 2009 Anthology · Daniel H. Nexon
How Enemies Become Friends
Book 41 of 61 · published 2010 Anthology · Charles A. Kupchan
The Clash of Ideas in World Politics
Book 42 of 61 · published 2010 Anthology · John M. Owen IV
Worse Than a Monolith
Book 43 of 61 · published 2011 Anthology · Thomas J. Christensen
Politics and Strategy
Book 45 of 61 · published 2011 Anthology · Peter Trubowitz
The Cold War and After
Book 46 of 61 · published 2012 Anthology · Marc Trachtenberg
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era
Book 47 of 61 · published 2014 Anthology · Vipin Narang
Knowing the Adversary
Book 48 of 61 · published 2014 Anthology · Keren Yarhi-Milo
Economic Interdependence and War
Book 49 of 61 · published 2014 Anthology · Dale C. Copeland
Who Fights for Reputation
Book 53 of 61 · published 2018 Anthology · Keren Yarhi-Milo
Cult of the Irrelevant
Book 55 of 61 · published 2019 Anthology · Michael C. Desch
Strategic Instincts
Book 58 of 61 · published 2020 Anthology · Dominic D.P. Johnson
Satellites and Commissars
Book 59 of 61 · published 2021 Anthology · Randall W. Stone
Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis
Book 60 of 61 · published 2021 Anthology · Barbara Reardon Farnham
The Spectre of War
Latest in the series · book 61 of 61 · published 2021 Anthology · Jonathan Haslam
The Cash Nexus
Series opener · book 1 of 5 · published 2001 Anthology · Niall Ferguson
The Square and the Tower
Book 4 of 5 · published 2017 Anthology · Niall Ferguson
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2017 Anthology · Niall Ferguson
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Fareed Zakaria?
Fareed Zakaria is a political and economics commentator, journalist, and author. Outside of his writings, he is best known for his work as a journalist, particularly his program “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, where he takes a deeper look into pertinent issues in the world. A man of many talents, he is also a columnist for The Washington Post and Newsweek, and an editor at Time and Newsweek International.
Which Fareed Zakaria series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series, the earliest of Fareed Zakaria's multi-book series: it opens with George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 (1992) and runs to 61 books across 1992–2021, ending with The Spectre of War (2021). Fareed Zakaria's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Fareed Zakaria written?
Fareed Zakaria has 73 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1992 and 2024. 66 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series with 61 books — and 7 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Fareed Zakaria's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Fareed Zakaria's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Princeton Studies in International History and Politics (1992–2021, 61 books) and Government (2001–2017, 5 books).
How are Fareed Zakaria's books organised into series?
This guide splits Fareed Zakaria's 73 books into 2 named series and 7 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics (61 books, 1992–2021); Government (5 books, 2001–2017).