Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International and writes a regular column for the magazine’s American and international editions, which appears occasionally in The Washington Post. He is a member of the roundtable of ABC News’s This Week with George Stephanapoulos as well as a political analyst for ABC News. He is also the host of a new weekly PBS show, Foreign Exchange, which focuses on international affairs. He received a BA in history from Yale and a PhD in political science from Harvard. In 1992 he was appointed managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a position he held for eight years. He is the author of From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role (Princeton University Press), and co-editor of The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World  (Basic Books). Zakaria has written for the New York Times,the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker,the New Republic, and the webzine Slate, among others, and has won several awards for his columns and other writings. He lives in New York City with his wife, son and daughter.