Fareed Zakaria, in his first year as editor of Newsweek International, came to international prominence with his cover-story The Politics of Rage: Why do they hate us?“, published three weeks after September 11, on October 15, 2001. His conclusion: Islamic countries had only imported some elements of the Western culture, but had troubles to import the “inner stuffings”, like a free market, political parties, rule of law.
He has now written a book, “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad”. For a full article on Zakaria, see “A beautiful mind” in The Indian Express.