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Welcome to our What in the World? segment where we feature the week's biggest outrage, gaffe or amazing act of statesmanship or smarts -- anything that catches our eye.

This week, Fareed gives his take on the events surrounding the coup in Honduras. Are we backing the wrong horse?

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Fareed gives his take on the outcome of the Iranian election and what lies ahead for this "naked dictatorship" and its proxies in Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere.

Link: Q&A transcript


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Click HERE to access the archive of GPS shows and podcasts, as well as many of our exclusive interviews. Below are some highlights:




• Pervez Musharraf Part I I Part II
• Robert Gates Part I I Part II
• Eliot Spitzer
• Sen. Barack Obama
• Colin Powell
• Queen Rania of Jordan
• Condoleeza Rice
• UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
• Tony Blair I Tony Blair - 1 Year Later
• Afghan Pres. Hamid Karzai
• Tom Friedman
• Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
• Lee Kwan Yew (founder, modern-day Singapore)
• GPS: 1 Year Later

What is making headlines in newspapers all over the world this week?

At the G-8 summit this week, member countries agreed to a $20 billion commitment to food security, though the Chinese President Hu Jintao left the G-8 summit early to return to deal with the unrest in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The commitment drew immediate skepticism from aid agencies. Climate change issues were deferred for later.

Media agencies around the world analyze the G-8 outcome, while many of the Italian and French press agencies focus on Silvio Berlusconi and Carla Bruni, respectively. Here's a sample of what newspapers around the world are reporting:

"Gordon Brown in his element at G8 summit as Tories face the heat PM heads home on a high note but aid agencies cast doubt on progress made in L'Aquila"
The Guardian (UK)

"G8 summit pledges $20 bln to fight hunger"
Xinhua (Chinese state media)

"Relief as event passes without incident"
Financial Times

"Hu Jintao leaves G8 Summit"
Pravda (Russia state media)

"Time for G8 to grow, let in emerging powers"
The Japan Times, Japan

"In the French Papers"
France 24, France
(original article in French in Le Figaro )

Check out some books and articles that Fareed and his guests are reading this week:

BOOK OF THE WEEK

The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi

Moisi argues that three human emotions are key factors in the world's political conflicts: Asia is full of hope, the Muslim world is beset by humiliation, and the West is ruled by fear. The subtitle gives you an idea of what it's about but what it doesn't give you an idea of is just how GOOD this book is.


OUR GUESTS RECOMMEND...
Tony Blair
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings. In Muhammad, Lings describes the life of the prophet through original sources. "He tells the story in an interesting way. A friend of mine once said that you cannot understand the Qur'an unless you have read this book."

Paul Krugman
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles. Stiles offers a biography of the titan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, who rose from builder of the nation's largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire.

John B. Taylor
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed. Lords of Finance tells the story of four bankers' experiences during the 1929 Great Depression. "It is great and a wonderful history."

Here are some book suggestions compiled by both Fareed and the GPS staff. Enjoy!

US POLITICS
• "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power" by David E. Sanger.

PHILOSOPHY
• "Left in Dark Times" by Bernard-Henri Levy.

THE ECONOMY
• "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World" by Niall Ferguson.

HISTORY
• "The Wise Men" by Walter Isaacson.

TERRORISM
• "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright

• "Ethics and War in the 21st Century" by Christopher Coker

INDIA/PAKISTAN
• "Descent into Chaos" by Ahmed Rashid

• "Imagining India: The Idea of a Nation Renewed" by Nandan Nilekani

MIDDLE EAST
• "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Tom Friedman

SOCIOLOGY
• "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

FOREIGN POLICY
• "Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy" by Leslie Gelb

In his new book The Post-American World, journalist and author Fareed Zakaria argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time.


Click HERE to read chapter 1 of The Post-American World (pdf)


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This week on GPS, Fareed sits down with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither. Is Geithner doing enough to fix the economy? Plus, Boris Nemtsov, former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Putin critic, on Obama's trip to Russia.

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