Parag Khanna Concepts

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words

president.” —Chuck Hagel, former U.S. secretary of defense “To get where you want to go, it helps to have a good map. In Connectography, Parag Khanna surveys the economic, political, and technological landscape and lays out the case for why ‘competitive connectivity’—with cities and supply chains as the vital nodes

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takeaway is that infrastructure is destiny: Follow the supply lines outlined in this book to see where the future flows.” —Kevin Kelly, co-founder, Wired “Parag Khanna takes our knowledge of connectivity into virgin territory, providing an entire atlas on how old and new connections are reshaping our physical, social, and mental

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meaning of a rapidly developing borderless world. Connectography proves why the past is no longer prologue to the future. There’s no better guide than Parag Khanna to show us all the possibilities of this new hyperconnected world.” —Mathew Burrows, director, Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council, and former counselor, U

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.S. National Intelligence Council “Reading Connectography is a real adventure. The expert knowledge of Parag Khanna has produced a comprehensive and fascinating book anchored in geography but extending to every field that connects people around the globe. His deep analysis of

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.” —Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO, WPP “From Lagos, Mumbai, Dubai, and Singapore to the Amazon, the Himalayas, the Arctic, and the Gobi desert steppe, Parag Khanna’s latest book provides an invaluable guide to the volatile, confusing worlds of early twenty-first-century geopolitics. A provocative remapping of contemporary capitalism based

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connectivity, and transnational supply chains rather than traditional political borders.” —Neil Brenner, director, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard University Graduate School of Design “In high style, Parag Khanna reimagines the world through the lens of globally connected supply chain networks. It is a world still fraught with perils—old and new—but one

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.” —John Arquilla, professor, United States Naval Postgraduate School “Today’s world has multiple geographies that do not fit the old geopolitics of states. In Connectography, Parag Khanna gives us not only new techniques for mapping but a whole new map—different, useful, and mesmerizing.” —Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology

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available on the Internet (including without limitation at any website, blog page, information page) that is not created by Penguin Random House. Copyright © 2016 by Parag Khanna All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. RANDOM HOUSE and

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are located beginning on this page. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Khanna, Parag, author. Title: Connectography : mapping the future of global civilization / Parag Khanna. Description: First edition. | New York : Random House, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and Index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015041766 | ISBN 9780812988550 | ISBN 9780812988567 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Human geography

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Networks That Run Themselves Building a Borderless World Recommended Sites and Tools for Mapping Map Insert Dedication Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Map Credits and Sources By Parag Khanna About the Author PROLOGUE The natural consequence of any obsession is passing it on to one’s children. I’ve been collecting globes, maps, and

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the Future of Global Civilization ABOUT THE AUTHOR PARAG KHANNA is a global strategist, world traveler, and bestselling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and a Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words

wife, Ayesha, and our kids, Zara and Zubin, with whom I’m grateful to be building our Asian future. About the Author © HART TAN Dr. Parag Khanna is the Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data-driven scenario-planning and strategic advisory firm that works with some of the world’s most innovative

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21st Century,” and featured in Wired magazine’s “Smart List.” MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com Authors.SimonandSchuster.com/Parag-Khanna @simonbooks ALSO BY PARAG KHANNA The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance Hybrid

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Zoroastrianism, 30, 32, 36, 69, 70 ZTE, 194 Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2019 by Parag Khanna All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address Simon & Schuster Subsidiary Rights Department

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words

of power that everyone in the world must understand better. If we do not find common ground in our minds, then nothing can save us. Parag Khanna New York August 2007 INTRODUCTION: INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS IN THE 1990S, as bombed-out buildings in the Balkans crumbled, who managed the reconstruction of these

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no. 144, July 2005. 10. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, “Islam Can Vote, If We Let It,” New York Times, May 21, 2005. 11. Lawrence Groo and Parag Khanna, “The Regime Change We Need,” The National Interest, Winter 2006. 12. Steven A. Cook, “The Promise of Pacts,” Journal of Democracy 17, no. 1 (January

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nations, strife is part of the human condition. Keegan, A History of Warfare (New York: Vintage, 1993). 81. Harold Nicolson, Diplomacy, 13. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Parag Khanna is a senior research fellow and director of the Global Governance Initiative in the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation. He has been

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empires is at stake, the convictions of their statesmen are the medium for survival.” Kissinger, World Restored, 2, 8. Return to text. Copyright © 2008 by Parag Khanna Maps copyright © 2008 by David Lindroth, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order Copyright © 2011 by Parag Khanna All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.,

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. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. Zielonka, Jan. Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007. About the Author PARAG KHANNA directs the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation. Author of the previous international bestseller The Second World, he was picked as one of

The Best Business Writing 2013

by Dean Starkman · 1 Jan 2013 · 514pp · 152,903 words

. In taking on some new e-books published by the increasingly ubiquitous TED conference brand (Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, by Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna; The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, by Philip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan; and

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TED Conference, which brought this hidden gem to the wider public—did not kill any trees in the publishing process. It might seem odd that Parag Khanna would turn his attention to the world of technology. He established his reputation as a wannabe geopolitical theorist, something of a modern-day Kissinger, only

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truths. • • • This book is not just useless piffle about technology; it is also an endorsement of some rather noxious political ideas. Those already familiar with Parag Khanna’s earlier celebrations of autocracies in Southeast Asia will not be surprised by some of the most outrageous paragraphs in his TED book. China is

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its stage—but anyone who is seriously considering reading Hybrid Reality or Smile should also entertain the option of playing Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja. Parag Khanna’s writings on geopolitics never amounted to much of anything even before his turn to technology, but it is instructive to see how his presentation

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words

fixing them need better pay or we need better roads. An even sharper antipolitical—and even antidemocratic—sentiment can be observed in the work of Parag Khanna, the geopolitics wunderkind who has recently reinvented himself as a technology visionary. In Hybrid Reality, coauthored with his wife, Khanna suggests that not just talk

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governance system can be designed to provide stability and positive change at the same time.” What does any of this mean? Well, “positive change” for Parag Khanna means that “using technology to deliberate on matters of national importance, deliver public services, and incorporate citizen feedback may ultimately be a truer form of

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rethink”: Noveck, Wiki Government, 16. 133 “the digital environment offers”: ibid., 40. 133 “most of the work”: ibid., 40. 134 “a generative governance system can”: Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna, Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, Kindle ed. (New York: TED Conferences, 2012). 134 “positive change . . . using technology”: ibid

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Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted (New York: Random House Digital, 2010), 216. 213 “the flow of technology is at most slowed”: Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna, Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (New York: TED Conferences, 2012). 214 Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words

—and ensure that the world’s first smart nation is also a democratic one. Geography Is Power I am having afternoon tea with the writer Parag Khanna in Singapore’s Goodwood Park Hotel. It’s a colonial-style building, set in a lushly landscaped six-acre garden just off Scott’s Road

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,” Khanna replies, waving his arm around the tearoom as if it were the whole island. “The geography of the future is a globally connected city.” Parag Khanna is right, of course. The vertiginous map of a hyperconnected Singapore—with its liquid inflows and outflows of networked goods, services, finance, people, and data

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optimistic about the way in which data might enrich democracy and public participation. There are many different maps of Singapore, enough maps to satisfy even Parag Khanna, showing how the Smart Island is collecting and storing data in the cloud as well as providing more and more affordable access for its five

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

by James Crabtree · 2 Jul 2018 · 442pp · 130,526 words

Dubey, Naresh Fernandes, Anant Goenka, Harsh Goenka, Anthony Good, Ramachandra Guha, Nisid Hajari, Ishaat Hussain, Kumar Iyer, Zahir Janmohamed, Akash Kapur, Bharat Kewalramani, Jaideep Khanna, Parag Khanna, Mukul Kesavan, Manjeet Kripalani, Rajiv Lall, Brijesh Mehra, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Saurabh Mukherjea, Anant Nath, PJ Nayak, Sanjay Nayar, Nandan Nilekani, Nitin Pai, Anuvab Pal

They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

by Lawrence Lessig · 5 Nov 2019 · 404pp · 115,108 words

. Our ignorance becomes predictable. It becomes cheap to evince. For those who would oppose democracy, it becomes just another argument for an alternative. Bestselling author Parag Khanna describes two models of governance in his 2017 book, Technocracy in America. In one, the government focuses on governing. In the other, it focuses on

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria · 5 Oct 2020 · 289pp · 86,165 words

. This constellation of activity will vary from place to place, but everywhere, the city is the center of the solar system around it. The author Parag Khanna notes that economically, America has really turned into a collection of interlinked metro regions that he dubs, “The United City-States of America.” Big, developed

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Index 2018, https://www.arcadis.com/media/1/D/5/%7B1D5AE7E2-A348–4B6E-B1D7–6D94FA7D7567%7DSustainable_Cities_Index_2018_Arcadis.pdf; and Robert Muggah and Parag Khanna, “These 10 Asian Cities Are the Most Prepared for the Future,” World Economic Forum, September 5, 2018, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/these

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, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020–06–29/what-happens-to-public-space-when-everything-moves-outside. 140 “United City-States of America”: Parag Khanna, “A New Map for America,” April 15, 2016, citing Joel Kotkin’s “mega-regions.” See map in the digital version: https://www.nytimes.com/2016