PARAG KHANNA

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Parag Khanna is Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He is author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (Random House, 2008).

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The Next Empire

Strategy+Business | May 6, 2008

by EDWARD BAKER

What can the U.S. do to maintain its competitive position against the E.U. and China? Foreign policy scholar Parag Khanna believes the answer lies right under our noses.

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Way Down Below

Review of The Bottom Billion, by Paul Collier
Kulturaustausch | Spring 2008

By Parag Khanna

The noted economist Paul Collier has always had a way with words, making him part of the vanguard of development experts—Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly among them—who have achieved a wide audience outside academic circles. With coinages such as “greed versus grievance” and “diamonds are a guerilla’s best friend,” Collier has made the complex challenges of civil conflict, war economies, and poverty traps, accessible to the layman and piqued interest in re-framing and re-engaging with major questions of the international political economy.

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