Harvard: insights into the power shifts setting the stage for a new global era

Published on Jul 3, 2012

Fareed Zakaria, a Harvard alumnus whose insights into the power shifts setting the stage for a new global era have made him a celebrated thought leader on international affairs, was the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard's 361st Commencement

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