Khanna, a widely recognized expert on global politics, offers a study of the 21st century’s emerging geopolitical marketplace dominated by three first world superpowers, the U.S., Europe and China. The key to Khanna’s analysis, however, is his depiction of a second world: countries in transition. They range in size and population from heavily peopled states like Brazil and Indonesia to smaller ones such as Malaysia. Khanna interprets the coming years as being shaped by the race to win the second world.
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The international-bestseller published in 2008 by Random House
Coming in January 2011 from Random House
Our species has reached a crossroads: we are irreversibly fusing with technology, creating a new hybrid reality.
Parag’s essays and reviews have appeared in leading publications such as the New York Times and Financial Times.
Parag is regularly featured in international print and television media on topics such as geopolitical risk, Asia, American foreign policy, and other issues.
Parag is author of The Second World (Random House, 2008) and the forthcoming How To Run the World (Random House, 2011).
Parag is a Partner at Hybrid Realities, a research and consulting firm focused on technology trends, risk analysis, and scenario planning.
Parag is a frequent keynote speaker at corporate, academic, and government events on a wide range of topics related to global complexity and change.
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World Politics Review | July 13, 2010
In the 1960s, University of Michigan scholar AFK Organski predicted that a populous, industrious China would rise in the East to challenge America as the world’s paramount power, and that the U.S. and Soviet Union would ally against China despite the communist allegiance shared by the PRC and USSR.
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Interview with Circle of Blue “Water News”.
TIME | March 12, 2010
One of TIME magazine’s “10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years”
Political borders remain among the most fundamental obstacles to human progress around the world.
Milken Global Conference | April 26, 2010
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International Herald Tribune | March 25, 2010
A gathering of the Arab League tends to bring out the worst of Middle Eastern stereotypes: dysfunctional protocol, empty exhortations denouncing Western evils and pointless acrimony.
The Washington Note | March 6, 2010
American Airlines is portrayed as the grand old silver lady of flying, and that’s precisely the problem.
The Daily Beast | February 16, 2010
Don’t be fooled into thinking the tide is turning with the Marja offensive. Parag Khanna and Melissa Payson on the years of political jawboning to come.
Der Standard | January 27, 2010
US-Politologe Parag Khanna über eine Strategie für Afghanistan, den Umgang mit dem Iran und die Konkurrenz zwischen USA und China. Mit Khanna sprach in Davos Alexandra Föderl-Schmi
The Majalla | January 18, 2010
What was, what is, and what might be yet to come after Obama’s first year in office.
Strategy + Business | December 2009
The best books on globalization this year offer insights into three directional trends that are changing the topology of global trade and influence: the deepening of regional ties across emerging markets; the continuing rise of powerful new global players; and, finally, the intractability of risk factors inherent in emerging market.
Straits Times | December 8, 2009
THERE is something to be said about pursuing a thought that seizes you, even if it takes you to the ends of the Earth. Just ask American foreign policy scholar Parag Khanna.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung | October 30, 2009
Klimaschutz hat bei den Amerikanern keine Top-Priorität. Europa sollte nicht auf die Klimaschutz-Nachzügler warten – sondern vorangehen.
