As global power dynamics shift from the West to the East, how should the United States respond?

Such questions will be addressed when Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" and editor-at-large for Time magazine, presents the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels 2011 World Affairs Fellowship Lecture April 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Cornell's Statler Auditorium.

The talk, "The Rise of the Rest: The Post-American World," is free and open to the public. It will cover how the growth of such countries as China, India, Brazil and Russia will reshape the world.

Zakaria was described in 1999 by Esquire magazine as "the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation." In 2010, the journal Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 global thinkers.

He received his B.A. from Yale and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. At 28, Zakaria became Foreign Affairs' youngest managing editor; he has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic and Slate; his most recent book is "The Post-American World" (2008), about the "rise of the rest" -- which he describes as the great story of our time.

The Bartels World Affairs Fellowship, established in 1984, is intended to foster a broadened worldview among Cornell students by bringing to campus persons who have distinguished themselves as international public figures.