Fareed Zakaria will discuss the growth of new international players and America's place in the world.

Even after he's won a Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama faces a challenge in restoring the sense of world leadership that some observers felt the United States lost in recent years.

It's not so much that America has lost its ability to lead as that other countries are rising and becoming more assertive about their own interests, says journalist and author Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." He'll give a talk, "The Rise of the Rest -- The Post-American World," at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 9 in Page Auditorium.

"The world has shifted from anti-Americanism to post-Americanism," Zakaria says.

Zakaria will discuss the growth of new international players and America's place in the world at this year's Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

"The rise of China and India onto the global stage, and the persistence of daunting global challenges like nuclear proliferation, climate change and global terrorism, all make for a difficult and urgent agenda for the Obama administration," says Peter Feaver, a public policy professor and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS), co-sponsor of the event.

"Fareed has an exceptional capacity to analyze broad trends, explain them in a way that resonates with both the expert and the lay-person and to do so in a fashion that influences the global public conversation," Feaver says.

Born in India to a Muslim family, Zakaria received a bachelor's degree from Yale and a doctorate in political science from Harvard. A former editor of Foreign Affairs magazine and Newsweek International, he has written a number of books on international affairs, including The Post American World, published last year. It quickly became a bestseller. He also hosts a weekly international affairs television program broadcast worldwide on CNN.

Tickets are required for the talk, which is free and open to the public. They will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at Page Auditorium's front entrance at 4:45 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9.

The lecture is jointly sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Phillips Family Endowment and the Duke University Program on American Grand Strategy.

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Lecture: Fareed Zakaria
5:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 9, Page Auditorium
Tickets required.
Information: 684-4444; tickets.duke.edu