San Francisco Chronicle | May 12, 2013
By Parag Khanna
America’s technology sector is producing ever more accomplished thinker-doers. It’s not enough to just code new software or launch companies; the best and brightest tech titans have also become publishing stars, notably Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and, of course, Ray Kurzweil.

Quartz | May 3, 2013
By Michlele Acuto and Parag Khanna
Urbanization has already declared itself the mega-trend of the 21st century, with half the world’s population now living in cities for the first time in human history. While the implications for economic growth have been widely discussed, urbanization’s impact on diplomacy and sovereignty will be equally profound.

CNN.com | May 3, 2013
By Parag Khanna
During London Mayor Boris Johnson’s recent visit to Dubai on an investment promotion trip, he jokingly declared that he is “mayor of the eighth emirate.” Though uttered in typical self-deprecating jest, the mayor of the world’s greatest city proclaiming that London is a mere province of the United Arab Emirates is revealing about how Dubai’s fortunes have revived since the punishing real estate crash and debt restructuring following the financial crisis.

The Atlantic | April 26, 2013
By Michele Acuto and Parag Khanna
Leaders of major cities are increasingly taking on diplomatic and inter-state roles.

Project Syndicate | April 24, 2013
By Parag Khanna
The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church. Perhaps more interesting is the ongoing modernization of the language in which those debates are conducted: Latin.

CNN.com | April 16, 2013
By Parag Khanna
verywhere you look in urban China, you see foreigners: Arab traders, African merchants, Western students and entrepreneurs. Is China, where the leading ethnic dynasties fought to unite and control the empire into the 20th century, becoming a 21st century melting pot?

The National | 26 March 2013
By Parag Khanna
Once again, it is time to appreciate that inter-city relations are replacing international relations. So much of what constitutes progressive diplomacy today is comprised of inter-city relations.

Quartz | March 19, 2013
By Parag Khanna and Ahmed El Hady
Each week brings new revelations in the scale of the European horse meat scandal and yesterday came news of faulty, too-sheer yoga pants, but there is a common theme: the complexity of untangling the supply chains of producers, distributors and vendors spanning a dozen countries.

Urban Solutions | February 2013
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna
Great cities will be increasingly distinguished by their capacity to produce inclusive, sustainable and innovative outcomes. These cities will be driven by empowered citizens, ubiquitous technologies and policies that enable the actors of the generative city to collaborate on boundary-breaking projects that redefine the way we work, live and play.

Global Brief | March 5, 2013
By Parag Khanna
Edging toward the sweet spot of new-century governance, the info-state represents a growing number of dynamic and entrepreneurial cities, city-states or small nations scattered around the world that govern as much through data as via democracy.

By Parag Khanna
CNN.com | March 4, 2013
The upcoming World Cup and Olympics guarantee that Brazil’s international visibility will continue its rapid ascent. The country just has to ensure there are seats for all of the guests. Brazil may be emerging from its reputation as the permanent “land of tomorrow,” but it will likely get there only at the last minute.

Straits Times | February 23, 2013
By Parag Khanna
It’s striking how the image of Singapore lags two decades behind the reality. While the monikers of trivial incidents are passed down over generations, many of Singapore’s virtues remain its best-kept secrets.

Foreign Policy | February 8, 2013
By Parag Khanna and Sawsan Gad
The competition for authority within and between states is as intense as ever in history. And it’s due not just to the current wave of democratic experimentation occurring across Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, but also the rising power of corporations, NGOs, religious groups, terrorists, and other individuals who today are financially, militarily, and technologically empowered like never before.

Quartz | 31 January 2013
By Parag Khanna
Myanmar began and ended 2012 as the frontier market on everyone’s mind. As a large, populous and strategically located country, Myanmar naturally invites the imagination to marvel at its possibilities—and investment opportunities. The powers that be are keen to modernize but still cautious about how quickly they open up.

CNN.com | 3 January 2013
By Parag Khanna
Call it a case for evolution instead of revolution. While the Arab world continues in the throes of violence and uncertainty, Myanmar is undergoing incremental change — and almost everyone seems to want it that way.

The National Interest | January-February 2013
By Marc Goodman and Parag Khanna
WHILE CYBERSPACE and social media have grabbed global headlines in recent years, other major technology clusters will have an even more seismic impact on geopolitics in coming decades. They include biotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence. Indeed, these technologies are coming of age and experiencing exponential innovation as well as growth—and not just in the United States. New contenders, including Asian state-run laboratories, corporate investors, DIY/maker groups, terrorists and organized criminals are all competing to harness and leverage technology in pursuit of their interests. In this rapidly changing environment, America risks having its international dominance undermined by these emerging technologies and players, much as Arab despots have been overthrown by protesters empowered in part by social media.

CNN.com | November 14, 2012
By Parag Khanna and John Gilman
The South China Sea has returned to the geopolitical spotlight, eclipsing the Taiwan Straits as the region’s most volatile flashpoint. But quite unlike the Taiwan or the associated Quemoy/Matsu dispute, the South China Sea’s claimant nations are at least as interested in developing the region’s economic potential as they are in asserting sovereignty and building military bases.

The Atlantic | October 24, 2012
By Soner Cagaptay and Parag Khanna
One-and-a-half years into Syria’s civil war, the latest chapter is the armed hostility between Syria and Turkey, once a friend of the Assad regime. A century ago, it was Western powers that dismantled and carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Today, Turkey can place itself in the driver’s seat of shaping the borders of the emerging Near East map.

WIRED UK | October 2012
By Parag Khanna
Answer the following question, with confidence if you can: from which sector will the first trillion-dollar company come? Your choices: IT, shale gas, 3D modular design/printing, pharmaceuticals.

McKinsey Center for Government | October 2012
By Parag Khanna
Parastatals occupy a vital middle ground between public agencies and private-sector organizations. They’re powerful, opaque, and proliferating around the world.

CNN.com | October 8, 2012
By Parag Khanna
Dusk can feel like an apocalyptic time of day to arrive in Nigeria. Flying over the Niger Delta region from the East and descending towards Lagos, plumes of haze from constant oil fires rise into the sky. Nigeria is not for the faint-hearted.

Quartz | September 28, 2012
By Parag Khanna
At some point in the next 200 million years, according to Yale University scientists, the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates will collide at the North Pole. When they are eventually joined by Africa, the singular super-continent will re-emerge, reminiscent of the Pangea that existed hundreds of millions of years ago.

Straits Times | September 29, 2012
By Parag Khanna

The New York Times | September 22, 2012
By Frank Jacobs and Parag Khanna
IT has been just over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the last great additions to the world’s list of independent nations. As Russia’s satellite republics staggered onto the global stage, one could be forgiven for thinking that this was it: the end of history, the final major release of static energy in a system now moving very close to equilibrium.

CNN.com | September 9, 2012
By Parag Khanna
here’s never been a better time to visit North Korea. The specter of U.S.-South Korean military exercises, a potential nuclear test, assassinations of defectors in South Korea, and general saber-rattling haven’t prevented a record 4,000 tourists from arriving in Pyongyang this year.

Global Policy | September 2012
By Parag Khanna
This article provides a snapshot of the increasing extensiveness of multi-stakeholder processes through a conceptual overview and an empirical survey, highlighting instances in which various actor pillars (governments, intergovernmental organisations, civil society organisations, corporations, etc.) have begun to expand their membership and participation to include other stakeholders.

The Straits Times | September 24, 2012
By Cheong Suk Wai
Geopolitical strategist Parag Khanna and his wife Ayesha are so well travelled that they have had to get a new passport for their three-year-old daughter Zara, her old one having run out of pages.

Foreign Policy | September/October 2012
By Aaron Smith and Parag Khanna
As technology shifts the workforce, some surprisingly traditional jobs are on the chopping block. Two words: medical robotics.

Common Fund Insight | Summer 2012
By Parag Khanna
America’s claim on globalization was short-sighted and hence short-lived. It’s a highly decentralized, ‘G-Zero’ world out there, and a number of clear trends are emerging. But one fact is indisputable: The U.S. is no longer the center of the commerce universe. Here’s why…

The Washington Post | July 3, 2012
By Chris Schroeder
“Globalization” isn’t a popular word in political circles these days, but authors Parag and Ayesha Khanna are making it their life’s mission to change that. In their new e-book, “Hybrid Reality,” the couple argue that the burgeoning forces of worldwide connectedness and shared innovation will open opportunities to all who understand and embrace them.

Daily Beast | June 25, 2012
By Ayesha & Parag Khanna
The measure of success and power in the age of info-states isn’t wealth or security alone but also Technik, the capacity to harness emerging technologies for the benefit of the population.

TED.com | June 24, 2012
By Helen Walter
No stranger to the TED stage himself, geo-strategist and author Parag Khanna is curating one of the sessions at this year’s TEDGlobal. “The Upside of Transparency” promises to be enlightening, thought-provoking — and perhaps just a little bit scary. Helen Walters recently talked to Parag in London. An edited version of their conversation follows.

CNN.com | June 21, 2012
By Ayesha & Parag Khanna
After Tip O’Neill’s “All politics is local,” Bill Clinton’s quip “It’s the economy, stupid,” is perhaps the most oft-quoted truism of modern American politics. But as times change, we should update our aphorisms accordingly.

Atlantic Cities | June 21, 2012
By Parag Khanna and Thomas Sevcik
Ever since the handover of Hong Kong’s sovereignty to China in 1997, land reclamation on both the island itself and from Kowloon peninsula have shrunk the breadth of Victoria harbor to a perpetually narrowing strait. This geographical trend turns out to serve as a useful metaphor for the island’s changing politics and economic orientation as China’s control deepens.

MSNBC | June 16, 2012
Ayesha and Parag Khanna share the thesis of their new e-book, “Hybrid Reality,” as they and Melissa Harris-Perry look at how technology has evolved and become integrated into everyday life.

Esquire | June 14, 2012
By Parag Khanna
So Facebook’s IPO fizzled. So its growth is slowing. So nobody’s really sure what to make of the so-called second bubble in Silicon Valley, and you’re sick of seeing Jamie Dimon on Capitol Hill, and have we mentioned that the job numbers aren’t looking so great? But still, there’s good news ahead: The world of trillion-dollar companies is still around the corner.

Pando Daily | June 13, 2012
By Ayesha & Parag Khanna
As we accelerate into this Hybrid Age, it’s worth taking stock of our individual preparedness for the future. Instead of IQ or EQ, we believe all members of society need higher TQ – technology quotient – to adapt to rapidly changing technological conditions.

Slate.com | June 13, 2012
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna
We are on the verge of living in a human-technology civilization.

The Atlantic | June 2012
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna
Much as economic integration made the world more cooperative and less conflict-prone, so can technology. Is this Pax Technologica?

Harvard Business Review | June 12, 2012
By Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna
Technik is about adaptability: the capacity to harness emerging technologies to improve our circumstances. In a world of such diverse political forms — democracies, monarchies, authoritarian states — we will increasingly differentiate societies on the basis not of their regime type or income, but of their capacity to harness technology. Societies that continuously upgrade their Technik will thrive.

Forbes.com | June 7, 2012
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna
Back in 2004, America’s leading humor magazine the Onion ran a story titled “American Robot’s Job Outsourced to Overseas Robot.” The lawnmower assembling 11-year old robot named QT2D-7 bitterly complained of not receiving any notice or severance.

Straits Times | May 26, 2012
By Ayesha & Parag Khanna
The unofficial capital of Asia is the place to be to witness an exciting future unfolding.

Bloomberg Businessweek | May 24, 2012
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna
It’s a cliché that the Pacific Ocean is displacing the Atlantic, that China will replace America at the top of the world’s hierarchy of power, and the East will surpass the West. The cliché is also wrong. The multipolar world we are entering will have no single winner, and the three-pillared West of the European Union, North America and Latin America remains a triangular zone of peace and foundation of global stability.

CNN Global Exchange | May 9, 2012
Parag Khanna discusses the emergence of state-capitalism with John Defterios on CNN’s Global Exchange.

Oxford University | April 23, 2012
In this lecture, Ayesha & Parag Khanna discuss the main characteristics of the Hybrid Age, elaborating on the notion of human-technology co-evolution and the framework of geo-technology for interpreting historical change. Particular attention is given to manifestations such as social robotics, the virtual economy, and smart cities. They also present numerous scenarios for social, economic and geopolitical disruptions that might occur in the coming decades.

The National Interest | May-June 2012
By Parag Khanna
THE OLD Order no longer qualifies as an order. The term “world order” denotes a stable distribution of power across the world. But power concentration today is in a state of tremendous flux, characterized by rapid diffusion and entropy toward a broad set of emerging powers that now share the regional and global stage. Western-centered multilateralism represents at best a partial component of a world system that is increasingly fragmented.

Schweizer Monat | April 2012
Interview with Florian Rittmeyer
The 21st century will not be dominated by China, India or Brazil but by the City. Such is the prediction of Parag Khanna. He sees Switzerland as a state of cities. And proposes a partnership with Singapore.

The World Today | April/May 2012
Interview conducted by Alan Philips
One of the most original thinkers on global strategy and technology discusses the future of the nation state, the focus of British foreign policy and how good can emerge from crisis.

Financial Times | March 28, 2012
By Parag Khanna
The term “Brics” is the ultimate double-edge sword of global political economy. It connotes a set of fast-growing and increasingly influential economies (also described as “rising powers” or “second world”). But it imputes to them a sense of unity that on closer inspection may not really exist. This week’s Brics summit in New Delhi reveals the potential and flaws of both aspects of the term – and why India ultimately has to be self-reliant.

der Freitag | February 3, 2012
Interview with Mikhael Krogerus
Die 40 wichtigsten weltpolitischen Fragen an einen, der glaubt, jede Antwort zu kennen: Dr. Parag Khanna, der Popstar unter den Politberatern.

LSE IDEAS | January 26, 2012
By Parag Khanna
Leading U.S. political scientist Benjamin Barber visited LSE on Wednesday for a seminar to discuss the framing ideas for his current book project titled If Mayors Ruled the World.

LSE IDEAS | January 14, 2012
By Parag Khanna
Like ‘Clash of Civilizations,’ the repetitive dissection of ‘soft power’ over time has only further muddied and corrupted whatever utility the phrase might once have had in its original formulation. Both terms are provocative rejoinders to the spirit of the times, but neither is analytically rigorous enough to improve policy. If anything, their endless hijacking has derailed serious policy discussions, diluting them into sophomoric academic stand-offs.

CNN | December 28, 2011

Parag Khanna tours Mumbai with CNN’s Mallika Kapur to explain the need for a data-driven cities index, the importance of large-scale infrastructure to alleviate urban congestion and boost productivity, and the economic promise of slums such as Mumbai’s Dharavi.

Financial Times | December 28, 2011
By Jonas Parello-Plesner and Parag Khanna

This year proved a tipping point for China’s approach to the world. The confluence of Europe’s debt crisis and America’s contracting defence budget has created rising expectations that China will shoulder ever greater power burdens for international stability. No longer can it keep a low profile in international strategic and economic affairs. Could it join America as a world policeman sooner than expected?

Harvard Business Review | January – February 2012
By Parag Khanna and Karan Khemka
The new year begins precariously. The global economy vacillates between signs of recovery and omens of collapse. Businesses seem paralyzed. Even though they’re sitting on $2 trillion in cash, they’re risk-averse, strategically incremental, and notably lacking in fresh ideas.

Atlantic Cities | November 17, 2011
By Parag Khanna and Thomas Sevcik
Oil prices remain near record highs, gold has gone through the roof, technology sector equity valuations are frothing over and emerging markets are decoupling from the moribund West. As investors seek new or alternative asset classes as either safe harbors or high-return prospects, there is an essential new portfolio that needs to be developed: cities.

Foreign Policy | November 11, 2011
The Obama administration is turning to Asia for the defining competition of the next century. But if the United States actually wants to win, it’ll need Latin America.

CNN.com | November 1, 2011
In the current phase of globalization, financial, ecological, political and social crises are occurring simultaneously and magnifying each other in unpredictable ways. From the Fukushima nuclear meltdown reshaping German politics and the European power industry, to America’s sub-prime mortgage meltdown threatening the Eurozone, such chain reactions are undermining an already fragile stability.

Financial Times | October 18, 2011
By James Crabtree
The 4,500 residents of the sleepy Italian island of Lampedusa are a community under siege. Lying only 180 miles north-west of Libya, they have found themselves at the epicentre of an international crisis as Italy struggles to cope with more than 52,000 migrants who have arrived from north Africa this year, sparking a political outcry that has rever-berated across Europe.

CNN.com | October 12, 2011
By Parag Khanna
Times Square will not turn into Tahrir Square anytime soon, despite the very interesting parallels between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring recently laid out by Joshua Keating in Foreign Policy.

CNN.com | October 7, 2011
On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans are searching for a new narrative to understand their country’s role in the world. But far more than declared principles or personalities, America’s place in the world is shaped by what it does in other places. Especially overseas, societies judge us by our actions rather than our words.

The Atlantic | September 21, 2011
By Parag Khanna and Mahanth Joishy
By now everyone knows the acronym “BRICS,” which formally stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but informally has come to refer to dozens of so-called emerging markets whose natural resources and trade surpluses are making them the center of geo-economic competition.

International Herald Tribune | September 8, 2011
By Parag Khanna and Mark Leonard
Of all the formulations deployed in recent years to describe the emerging world order, G-2 is probably the worst and most dangerous.

The Atlantic | September 5, 2011
In the decade since September 2001, why is the U.S. still reacting to events rather than planning ahead, separating challenges instead of connecting them, and pretending we’ll live in a unipolar world forever?

openDemocracy | August 30, 2011
Meaningful stakeholders in the collective, each becoming reasonable people of goodwill – this is the model for successfully living with the identitarianisms that will otherwise tear our future apart. This applies as much to multi-ethnic Europe as the Gulf States or Singapore.

NPR Marketplace | August 26, 2011
The U.S. participation in the Libyan conflict has been described as “leading from behind.” Europe took a larger role in helping the revolution.

Foreign Policy | August 18, 2011
The couple that predicted the world we live in today.
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna

Foreign Policy | September-October 2011
What will the world look like in 2025? Much like today, only faster, driven by more complex diplomacy, high-risk economic density, a whole new kind of destructive proliferation — and robot chauffeurs.

Booz & Co. | July 2011
The Gulf Cooperation Council, consisting of six dynamic yet relatively small economies, is in an excellent position to realize the benefits of economic integration. This Ideation Center Insight analyzes integration efforts in the GCC along five dimensions: a monetary union; customs and borders; intra-regional investment; joint infrastructure; and knowledge cooperation.

TIME | June 23, 2011
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna

Call it recycling opportunity. After their failed bid to host the 2004 Summer Olympics, Stockholm city leaders decided to turn a would-be sports village in the Hammarby Sjostad district into one of the world’s most successful eco-villages. The practices of powering buses with biogas, recycling rainwater for irrigation and using organic waste for fertilizer spread to other districts of Sweden’s largest city. Today the city’s water is so clean that fishermen actually stand on bridges in the central business district, catching fresh salmon and trout.

Foreign Policy |May 24, 2011
By Parag Khanna
After more than 50 years of running Singapore, its octogenarian leader is stepping aside. Can the island nation stay prosperous and peaceful as democratic storms begin to blow?

Newsweek Japan | May 2011
By Ayesha & Parag Khanna

The New York Times | May 10, 2011
By Parag Khanna
The U.S.-Pakistan relationship is a microcosm of international relations more broadly: talking about change has little correlation to actually achieving it.

TIME | May 2, 2011
By Ayesha and Parag Khanna
On April 5, Luciano Ducci, the mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, boarded the world’s largest urban bus on its inaugural ride across town, marking yet another coup for the city’s transportation system. Powered exclusively by biofuels (made from soybeans), the 92-ft.-long (28 m) megabus can carry 250 passengers at a time and makes just four stops along a 6-mile (10 km) route. With a projected fleet of 24 vehicles, the system will ferry an average of 25,000 people per day.

CNN.com | May 2, 2011
By Parag Khanna
In the decade since 9/11, many senior al Qaeda leaders and operatives have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere, yet still all of these countries remain fragile at best and collapsed at worst.

Foreign Policy | April 20, 2011
By Parag Khanna
Forget Gamal Abdel Nasser. The time for Arab unity is now.
Arabs are learning to solve their own problems. For the first time in more than 500 years, the convulsions rippling across the Arab world cannot be blamed on Ottoman conquest, European imperialism, American hegemony, or Israeli bullying.

NPR Marketplace | April 7, 2011
Millions of dollars will be spent rebuilding the Middle East. Arab countries can play a vital role in funding those projects.

Management Next (India) | March 2011

Vision (Dubai) | Spring 2011
The emerging geopolitical and economic consensus is that the 21st century will no longer be dominated by nations such as America, Brazil and China, but, instead, by so-called global cities such as Dubai.

Harvard Business Review | February 22, 2011
By Parag Khanna
What do Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, and Nigeria all have in common? They are very populous, Muslim-majority countries, all facing constant political unrest and on the brink of collapse. And yet they are also all part of Goldman Sachs’ “Next Eleven,” the much-anticipated extension of its fabled category of “BRICs” — comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

Huffintgton Post | February 14, 2011
What others want for themselves is more important than what we want for them — always.

As the daily drama of street demonstrations, shuttle diplomacy, and backroom deals has unfolded in Egypt over the past three weeks, the Obama administration gradually shifted its stance from standing by the side of now former president Hosni Mubarak — as so many presidents before Obama have done — to accepting and encouraging his incremental concessions to the demands of the Egyptian people.

The Daily | February 12, 2011
By Parag Khanna

Egypt will need America’s help to reach true democracy.

CNN.com | February 10, 2011

The high expectations of protesters in Tahrir Square turned to fury Thursday after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak delivered a speech in which he made no mention of leaving office before his term ends in September. Crowds had swarmed the square for hours as speculation grew that Mubarak was stepping aside after 30 years in power. They heard instead from the president that he was “delegating power” to Vice President Omar Suleiman. Now the focus shifts to Friday, one of two regular protest days (the other is Tuesday) on the demonstrators’ weekly schedule.

Foreign Policy | February 3, 2011
By Parag Khanna
It seems that every autocratic regime that Washington has backed for decades — save for the monarchies of the Persian Gulf — is on the outs.

CNN.com | February 1, 2011
By Parag Khanna
The Arab upheaval, which has been compared to the 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall, challenges not only the regimes that are falling, but also more fundamentally the entire Arab order that has held since the decolonization of three generations ago. We are witnessing the triumph of people power over the inertia of political power.

The Daily Beast | February 1, 2011
By Parag Khanna
The ouster of President Hosni Mubarak will not set off a domino effect in the region, Parag Khanna says. But the revolt in Egypt clearly shows the U.S. should back the promise of the Egypt’s next generation.

Foreign Policy | January 28, 2011
By Parag Khanna
Yes, it’s where the elite come to mingle and celebrate their success. But it’s also where real things happen that are good for the new global commons.

Le Figaro | January 28, 2011
By Parag Khanna and Felix Marquardt
Pour les auteurs, respectivement chercheur dans le think-tank New America Foundation et président fondateur des Dîners de l’Atlantique, le Forum économique mondial reste un rassemblement éclectique de décideurs.

The Wall Street Journal | January 24, 2011
By Parag Khanna
The last year or two have witnessed no shortage of silver-bullet rhetoric to deal with the world’s most pressing challenges. A global economic “G-2” of the U.S. and China was proposed to sort out the imbalances between savings and deficit countries; the United Nations General Assembly devoted several days in September to the “Millennium Development Goals” that address hunger, poverty, and other socio-economic ills; grand summits were held in Copenhagen and Cancun to craft a global climate treaty; and experts spoke of a “Grand Bargain” to freeze Iran’s nuclear program.

TIME | January 31, 2011
By Parag Khanna
In one of the most memorable scenes in cinema, Orson Welles’ Harry Lime rides the giant Viennese Ferris wheel in the 1949 classic The Third Man and muses, “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

CNN.com | January 20, 2011
By Parag Khanna
Since the WikiLeaks scandal exploded at the end of last year, many commentators have declared this episode marks “the end of diplomacy.” Nonsense. For almost two centuries, even world leaders have feared that communications technology would marginalize diplomacy’s special role in international relations.

Foreign Policy | January 13, 2011
By Parag Khanna
Southern Sudan is just the beginning. The world may soon have 300 independent, sovereign nations … and that’s just fine.

The Daily Beast | January 2011
By Parag Khanna
President Obama’s foreign policy is confused and distracted, says Parag Khanna, but the solution is greater engagement in helping Southeast Asia and Africa defend their own interests.

What Matters (McKinsey) | January 2011
By Parag Khanna
Most people in the world have probably seen the famous photograph of the Earth taken from the Apollo 17 mission on December 7, 1972. Spanning a swath of the globe from the Mediterranean Sea to the southern polar ice cap, the image features lovely white cloud swirls over the grand African continental massif. Much has changed since that photo was snapped.

By Parag Khanna

The Huffiington Post | January 3, 2011

“Doing more with less” is an axiom of this age of frugality. Budgets are being cut and programs slashed even at the all-mighty Pentagon. Yet this is perhaps the greatest window of opportunity America has had in two decades to shift away from its astoundingly costly and questionably effective military-industrial complex towards an approach more suited to a multidimensional, globalized world: a diplomatic-industrial complex.

By Parag Khanna

Financial Times | December 28, 2010

Imagine a world with a strong China reshaping Asia; India confidently extending its reach from Africa to Indonesia; Islam spreading its influence; a Europe replete with crises of legitimacy; sovereign city-states holding wealth and driving innovation; and private mercenary armies, religious radicals and humanitarian bodies playing by their own rules as they compete for hearts, minds and wallets.

By Parag Khanna and Karim Makdisi

Foreign Policy | December 22, 2010

Emerging countries deserve the World Cup, but FIFA needs to get its act together to make sure that the global showcase doesn’t do more harm than good.

By Ian Bremmer and Parag Khanna

International Herald Tribune | December 22, 2010

2010 was the year that removed all doubt that cybersecurity is now a geopolitical problem.

By Christopher Tucker and Parag Khanna

Foreign Policy | December 20, 2010

Afghanistan has long been thought of as more a natural wasteland than a natural resource treasure chest.

The Huffington Post | December 15, 2010

This past June, I organized a private breakfast meeting for Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, in a hotel salon in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Foreign Policy | December 2010

The multipolar moment has arrived — and it’s nothing like Americans imagined.

The New York Times | August 23, 2010

Only sustained engagement between the U.S. and Pakistan can reduce the influence of radical groups that capitalize on disasters.

Foreign Policy | September/October 2010

The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.

International Herald Tribune | August 12, 2010

The fate of the massive deposits of lithium recently discovered in Afghanistan is destined to be no different from that of landlocked Central Asia’s other natural resources: tapped by the West, and eventually controlled by the East.

The Washington Note | August 3, 2010

Ulanbaatar, Mongolia – At last year’s TED Global conference, I presented a series of “invisible maps” showing how the world’s borders and gravities of influence are constantly shifting, often without us noticing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Foreign Policy | November 5, 2009
Natural gas pipelines, not military supply lines, could pave the way for stability in power-starved Central Asia. The lessons of geography appear to be ignored by policymakers in Washington D.C. these days.

The Washington Note | September 21, 2009
The latest entrant in the game of diplomatic musical chairs to shape the chaotic new world order is the Group of 20, whose summit is also taking place this week in Pittsburgh.

ForeignPolicy.com | August 15, 2009

On Pakistan’s 62nd birthday, the country’s rumor mill has much to churn on, even by local standards.

ForeignPolicy.com | July 16, 2009

Why Pakistan, not Afghanistan, should be the focus of Obama’s war on terror.

CNN.com | June 17, 2009

With a recount announced for the Iranian election, and opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi demanding a fresh election, the political situation in Iran remains on a knife’s edge.

Foreign Policy | June 12, 2009

Having an inept president can do more to rejuvenate democracy than years of MTV “Rock the Vote” campaigns.

Prospect | June 2009

The remote, rebellious western provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang are China’s poorest, but they hold vast natural wealth which Beijing is determined to control. On a 3,000-mile trek I saw how far the government is bending the whole central Asian region to its will.

Foreign Policy | May 6, 2009

When will Pakistan’s leaders wake up and do what’s needed to save their country from ruin?

The New York Times | May 5, 2009

Gen. David Petraeus, head of the United States Central Command, has stated that the next two weeks are crucial to Pakistan’s survival, while counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen has said that the country could collapse within six months.

The Daily Beast | April 24, 2009

Foreign Policy | May/June 2009

The Washington Post | Aprl 19, 2009

Al Majalla | April 17, 2009

The New York Times | April 14, 2009

Slate.com | April 14, 2009

Newsweek | March 3, 2009

McKinsey Quarterly Special Issue | February 2009

Foreign Policy.com | February 2009

The National | February 6, 2009

The New York Times | January 26, 2009

BusinessWeek | January 13, 2009

Athens Banner-Herald | January 8, 2009

GOOD | January-February 2009

Newsweek | November 27, 2008

Forbes.com | September 26, 2008

Esquire | October 2008

The Guardian | September 12, 2008

Esquire | September 2008

Internationale Politik | Fall 2008

Foreign Policy | July/August 2008

The Guardian | June 17, 2008

World Politics Review | May 30, 2008

Review of The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria
The Washington Post | May 18, 2008

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

Prospect | May 2008

Council on Foreign Relations | April 20, 2008

The Guardian | March 25, 2008

World Politics Review | February 26, 2008

The Guardian | February 2, 2008

New York Times Magazine | January 27, 2008

We need pragmatic incremental steps like the above to deliver tangible gains to people beyond our shores, repair our reputation, maintain harmony among the Big Three, keep the second world stable and neutral and protect our common planet. Let’s hope whoever is sworn in as the next American president understands this.

The New Statesman | January 7, 2008

GOOD Magazine | July 31, 2007

The New Republic Online | April 2, 2007

The National Interest | November/December 2006

Foreign Policy | September/October 2006

Truthdig | August 31, 2006

Washingtonpost.com | June 9, 2006

Policy Review | February/March 2006

EGO Magazine | January 2006

Harper’s Magazine | January 2006

EGO Magazine | November 2005

Prospect | September 2005

EGO Magazine | August 2005

Foreign Policy | July/August 2005

AmericanProgress.org | June 20, 2005

New York Times | April 3, 2005

India as a New Global Leader, Foreign Policy Centre (U.K.) | 2005

TheGlobalist.com | December 3, 2004

The Washington Times | December 2, 2004

The Financial Times | October 3, 2004

Foreign Policy | July/August 2004

Another Generation | June-August 2004

India Abroad | May 28, 2004

Another Generation | March-May 2004

The Los Angeles Times | April 30, 2004

The Globalist | April 21, 2004

Slate | March 20, 2004

Daily Star | January 27, 2004

Daily Star | December 30, 2003

Daily Star | December 27, 2003

The Washington Times | December 12, 2003

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs | Winter/Spring 2003

The New York Times | December 6, 2003

Review of No End To War, by Walter Laqueur
Policy Review | October & November 2003

Current History | November 2003

OpenDemocracy.net | September 17, 2003

In the National Interest | September 10, 2003

Strategy + Business | Fall 2003

Review of Being America, by Jedediah Purdy
Survival | Summer 2003

Review of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, by Robert D. Kaplan
The New Statesman (U.K.) | February 2002