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TIME | March 12, 2010

TIME magazine's "10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years" By Parag Khanna]]> The Kurds know this, which is why they have been signing oil-exploration agreements with companies from Canada to Norway in preparation for the day the entity known as Iraq officially ceases to exist. If we replaced all the post-Ottoman political borders on our maps with lines representing the region's oil pipelines, we'd have a much more accurate picture of the vectors of influence and interdependence — and potential avenues for creating peace. Kurdistan would, after all, be landlocked; it has no choice but to get along with its neighbors if it wants to get the oil out. Similarly, why do we lazily accept the continuing existence of Sudan, a British colonial construct joining Arab Muslims and African Christians in Africa's second largest country, a place so large that three disconnected civil wars — in Darfur, South Sudan and the east — are raging at the same time? A more stable and peaceful arrangement for Sudan would be to focus on independence for Darfur and South Sudan sooner rather than later, allowing them to rebuild themselves as smaller states at peace with their neighbors instead of facing Khartoum's persistent and nefarious undermining from within. Beyond Sudan, Africa would benefit hugely from a reimagining of its current borders. Some innovative transborder ideas have emerged, such as sharing hydropower projects in the Great Lakes region or even establishing transboundary conservation parks, as South Africa is doing with its neighbors. Africa can become economically viable only if its plethora of puny economies merge from more than 50 into just a few. Leaders seeking to respond to the global economic and underemployment crises should take a lesson from the world's most successful instance of a subordination of arbitrary borders: the European Union. The E.U. is the world's most peaceful multinational zone and its largest economic bloc, combining 27 countries, 450 million people and a $20 trillion GDP. The solution to the hundreds of lines that scar our political geography is to physically build the lines that connect people across them. If we spend just 10% of what we do on fighting over and defending borders on transcending them, the next decade — and the decades beyond — will be better than the last. Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2010://1.188 2010-03-06T15:06:01Z 2010-03-06T15:12:19Z

The Washington Note | March 6, 2010

In "Up in the Air," George Clooney portrays uber-frequent flier Ryan Bingham, who reaches ten million American Airlines miles--without ever leaving the United States. American Airlines is portrayed as the grand old silver lady of flying, and that's precisely the problem. It's certainly old, but far from grand. What does Clooney's Oscar hit have to do with U.S. foreign policy? Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2010://1.187 2010-02-16T12:14:17Z 2010-02-16T12:21:54Z

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. Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2010://1.186 2010-01-28T20:07:29Z 2010-01-28T20:15:15Z

Der Standard | January 27, 2010

STANDARD-Interview 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-Schmid. Link to article ]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2010://1.185 2010-01-19T15:13:18Z 2010-01-19T15:34:44Z

The Majalla | January 18, 2010

What was, what is, and what might be yet to come after Obama’s first year in office. By Parag Khanna The first year of Obama’s administration has passed so quickly that it would be unfair to focus only on reviewing the events of the past twelve months without examining with equal vigor the trends that Obama’s election and foreign policy have set in motion and scenarios for the year ahead. Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2009://1.184 2009-12-08T12:40:40Z 2009-12-08T12:52:34Z

Straits Times | December 8, 2009

By Cheong Suk-Wai TABLE TALK WITH PARAG KHANNA 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. In 2004, he first hit upon the idea of making a television series about emerging markets and how they were being riven apart internally by globalisation. Nobody took him up on it. Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2009://1.183 2009-11-24T04:41:16Z 2009-11-26T12:54:18Z

Strategy + Business | December 2009

"Western Dominanance in Decline" By Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna Ben Simpfendorfer The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) Nandan Nilekani Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation (Penguin Press, 2009) Nirmalya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra and Suj Chandrasekhar India’s Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking On the World (Harvard Business Press, 2009) Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing (Oxford University Press, 2009) Robert P. Smith, with Peter Zheutlin Riches among the Ruins: Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy (AMACOM, 2009) Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2009://1.182 2009-11-06T03:34:50Z 2009-11-06T03:37:55Z

Foreign Policy | November 5, 2009

By Saleem Ali and Parag Khanna Natural gas pipelines, not military supply lines, could pave the way for stability in power-starved Central Asia. Link to article ]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2009://1.181 2009-11-01T22:03:01Z 2009-11-01T22:07:15Z

Sueddeutsche Zeitung | October 30, 2009

By Parag Khanna Klimaschutz hat bei den Amerikanern keine Top-Priorität. Europa sollte nicht auf die Klimaschutz-Nachzügler warten - sondern vorangehen. Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2009://1.180 2009-10-28T13:11:40Z 2009-10-28T13:13:09Z

International Relations and Security Network | October 27, 2009

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Poder | October 2009

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Oriental Morning Post | October 19, 2009

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Wiener Zeitung | October 16, 2009

Von Klaus Huhold US-Experte sieht Konkurrenz durch EU und China. Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2009://1.176 2009-10-16T19:02:03Z 2009-10-16T19:05:35Z

Die Presse | October 15, 2009

von CHRISTIAN ULTSCH US-Politologe Parag Khanna sieht neue tripolare Welt mit China und starker EU. Der relative Machtverlust der USA sei eben strukturell bedingt und unwiderruflich. Link to article]]> tag:www.paragkhanna.com,2009://1.175 2009-09-30T20:03:14Z 2009-09-30T20:05:28Z

The European | October 1, 2009

Dank Europa bewegt sich die Welt auf ein neues Mittelalter zu. Doch dieses Mal sind die Aussichten alles andere als düster. Link to article]]>