Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
new connections are reshaping our physical, social, and mental worlds. This is a deep and highly informative reflection on the 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
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BOX: Measuring the Supply Chain’s Footprint Location, Location, Location CONCLUSION: FROM CONNECTIVITY TO RESILIENCE A New Moral Compass 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
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a connected world. Fragmentation is thus not the antithesis of globalization but its handmaiden. This is the radical paradox at the heart of our increasingly borderless world: It has the maximum number of borders. Not a single border needs to “disappear” for the supply chain world to emerge. Rather, it is precisely
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connectivity is the cohesion beneath the chaos; it is what prevents the world from “falling apart” precisely when commentators lament that it is. BUILDING A BORDERLESS WORLD Even competitive grand strategy advances a self-stabilizing world. As America, Europe, and China invest in infrastructure with their neighbors, promoting regional integration and advancing
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. There are no greater stakes than in the question of moving from a nations-borders world to a flow-friction world. We need a more borderless world because we can’t afford destructive territorial conflict, because correcting the mismatch of people and resources can unlock incredible human and economic potential, because so
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benefit from globalization. Borders are not the antidote to risk and uncertainty; more connections are. But if we want to enjoy the benefits of a borderless world, we have to build it first. Our fate hangs in the balance. RECOMMENDED SITES AND TOOLS FOR MAPPING AJD GEOSPATIAL CONCEPTS http://gisconsultingse
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The Great Firewall of China
by James Griffiths; · 15 Jan 2018 · 453pp · 114,250 words
.org/web/20020206170828/http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/globalization/goldenShieldEng.html 20J. Goldsmith and T. Wu, Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a borderless world, New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 93. 21Author interview with Michael Robinson, January 2018. 22D. Sheff, ‘Betting on bandwidth’, Wired, 1 February 2002
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Rights in China, https://www.hrichina.org/en/un-treaty-bodies-and-china 18J. Goldsmith and T. Wu, Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a borderless world, New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 90–1. 19‘China dissidents add branches to banned opposition party’, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1999
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Daily, 27 March 2002, http://en.people.cn/200203/26/eng20020326_92885.shtml 15J. Goldsmith and T. Wu, Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a borderless world, New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 9. 16‘Public pledge of self-regulation and professional ethics for China internet industry’, Internet Society of
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, 26 February 2006, https://www.c-span.org/video/?191220-1/internet-china 2J. Goldsmith and T. Wu, Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a borderless world, New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 10. 3Committee to Protect Journalists, ‘Blogger’s website deleted by Microsoft following government’s request’, IFEX, 9
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and commentary’, The Internet Society, 9 May 2016, https://www.internetsociety.org/ianatimeline/ 5J. Goldsmith and T. Wu, Who Controls the Internet?: illusions of a borderless world, Oxford and New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 168. 6Goldsmith and Wu, Who Controls the Internet?, pp. 34–5. 7Snyder et al., ‘The
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Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
: “the electronic herd” for currency traders, the “golden straightjacket” for the market-friendly rules that governments must wear if they want to thrive in a borderless world. He morphed Das Kapital into “DOS Capital” and propounded the “golden arches theory”—that no two countries lucky enough to have McDonald’s restaurants will
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history. This idea has plenty of support among management gurus. Kenichi Ohmae has published a succession of books hammering home the argument, such as The Borderless World (1990) and The End of the Nation State (1995). (For all his celebration of “borderlessness,” Ohmae’s fame depended on his ability to explain America
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–305 Boeing, 53, 298 Bombay Stock Exchange, 287 Booth School (Chicago Business School), 51, 57, 61 Booz Allen Hamilton, 64, 298, 343, 354, 404 The Borderless World (Ohmae), 277 Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 5, 52, 63, 64, 111, 223, 228, 254, 267, 364 Boston Pizza, 353 Bower, Joseph, 301 Bower, Marvin, 49
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
, or for such dangerous constructs as the nation, which were irrational and built around in-group prejudice. In its place rose a vision of a borderless world of co-operation and peace. This was the latest manifestation of the dream of cosmopolis. It would be post-national and post-roots and it
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang · 1 Jan 2010 · 365pp · 88,125 words
technologies, represented by the internet, has fundamentally changed the way in which the world works. It has led to the ‘death of distance’. In the ‘borderless world’ thus created, old conventions about national economic interests and the role of national governments are invalid. This technological revolution defines the age we live in
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has led people to believe that the recent changes in the technologies of communications and transportation are so revolutionary that now we live in a ‘borderless world’, as the title of the famous book by Kenichi Ohmae, the Japanese business guru, goes.6 As a result, in the last twenty years or
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high-grade activities such as strategic decision-making and higher-end R&D, they remain firmly centred at their home countries. The talk of a borderless world is highly exaggerated.1 Why is there a home-country bias? Why is there a home-country bias in this globalized world? The free-market
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. 5 The book is H.-J. Chang and I. Grabel, Reclaiming Development – An Alternative Economic Policy Manual (Zed Press, London, 2004). 6 K. Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy (Harper & Row, New York, 1990). THING 5 1 An accessible summary of the academic literature on the complexity
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–61 and growth 228–30 see also government direction; industrial policy BIS (Bank for International Settlements) 262 Black, Eugene 126 Blair, Tony 82, 143, 179 borderless world 39–40 bounded rationality theory 168, 170, 173–7, 250, 254 Brazilian inflation 55 Britain industrial dominance/decline 89–91 protectionism 69–70 British Academy
Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
by Doug Henwood · 30 Aug 1998 · 586pp · 159,901 words
, it's hardly a fair representation of how we invest today. Capital and commodities traverse the globe with remarkable freedom. Though casual observers treat this borderless world as a recent invention, it's more than a little reminiscent of life before World War I. That idyllic world was nicely evoked by John
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's sentimental patriotism is a long way from the heartless, landless sentiments of Stronach and the Colgate exec. It remains to be seen whether this borderless world is more permanent than the one described by Keynes, or whether war, depression, and/or political rebellion will smash the idyll once again. Recalling Keynes
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used for "worthwhile international purposes" — funding the UN, the World Bank, and the IMF, for example. The latter institutions have contributed greatly to creating the borderless world Tobin bemoans, but liberals rarely seem to have problems with contradictions like this. Tobin has also argued for a similar tax on stock trades. Tobin
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by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
health. Name the issue, the United Nations has it covered. But how can an organization that caters to bordered states solve the problems of a borderless world? Are pandemics a health issue, a security issue, or both? Is terrorism a political issue, an economic one, or both? What about crop-killing insect
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companies and projects far more than their home nations as such, and millions of lives depend on their good works. They increasingly run their own borderless worlds. From clans to corporations, all of the players active in diplomacy a millennium ago are back. The word “diplomacy” stems from the Greek diploun, meaning
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
by Benjamin R. Barber · 5 Nov 2013 · 501pp · 145,943 words
old theories and new realities. The new realities are about interdependence. For decades thinkers such as Masao Miyoshi have been announcing the coming of a “borderless world.”25 But the old theory insists on the sovereign independence of bordered states that, lacking a global compass, allow banks and oil cartels (and pandemics
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5, 9, and 12. See IAAC (Barcelona), Third Advanced Architectural Contest: Self Sufficient City (Envisioning the Habitat of the Future), 2010. 25. Masao Miyoshi, “A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation State,” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Summer 1993), pp. 726–751. 26. David A
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and security, 107, 125 Bogotá. See Mockus, Antanas Bonding capital, 60, 113, 115, 372n5 Boo, Katherine, 182–183, 188–189, 200–202, 228, 239, 240 “Borderless” world, 20–21, 299–332. See also Glocal civil society Boston Marathon bombing (2013), 107, 124–125 Bottom-up democracy, 22, 336–359. See also Global
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, 243–244 Cities, 3–24; as alternative to nation-states, 3–6, 18–19; autonomy, 166–171, 321–325, 328–332; bailouts, 186–187; and borderless world, 20–21, 299–332; and change, 7–8, 59–60, 62, 84; commonalities, 7, 164; as communities, 63, 68, 69; cooperation among, 151–152; cooperation
How Asia Works
by Joe Studwell · 1 Jul 2013 · 868pp · 147,152 words
tell his underlings to read – a fashionable, pro-globalisation book that was wholly irrelevant to his country’s needs: Kenichi Ohmae’s 1990 tome The Borderless World. Mahathir was mercurial. He launched his biggest industrialisation projects, and then began to sour on Japanese joint venture partners, even before Malaysian bureaucrats had completed
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industrial policies that made Japan rich – policies which Mahathir was supposed to be imitating – the prime minister was so taken with Ohmae’s book The Borderless World that he ordered all around him to read it. Asmat Kamaludin, who became the top bureaucrat at Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry
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if you were walking around with that book.’156 However, with the benefit of hindsight, the rather hasty, under-researched and breathless tone of The Borderless World was a pointer to the unlikelihood of its prediction that the world was becoming more favourable to the development of poor countries. It was not
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have done no such thing.157 Instead, the white elephant projects stand as testaments to the naivete – albeit well-meaning naivete – of books like The Borderless World and The World is Flat that suggest that we are moving towards a new developmental paradigm in which the interests of rich and poor nations
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, 209, 210, 211, 213, 297n86 Berkshire Hathaway 119, 252 BHP 117, 142 Billig, Michael 48 Bismarck, Otto von 85 black jails 269, 338n3 Bogosari 205 Borderless World, The (Ohmae) 131, 134 Brazil xv, 10, 116, 154 Bretton Woods system 172 Bricklin, Malcolm 312n204 Britain see United Kingdom Broad Air Conditioning 232 Brunei
Free Ride
by Robert Levine · 25 Oct 2011 · 465pp · 109,653 words
to block French users from its site. At the time, according to Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu’s Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World, it seemed entirely possible that France would give in. Internet utopians claimed such censorship was impossible anyway. “It’s not that laws aren’t relevant
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’s that the nation-state is not relevant.”7 France, this line of thinking implied, would just have to accept the new reality of a borderless world. But France does not even fully accept the reality of Sunday shop openings. “It became clear,” Goldsmith and Wu write, “that the irrelevance of the
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Group on Bringing Europe’s Cultural Heritage Online (European Commission, January 2011). 7. Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World, p. 3. 8. Ibid. 9. David Hearst, “Yahoo! Faces French Fines for Nazi Auctions,” Guardian, July 24, 2000. 10. Goldsmith and Wu, Who Controls the
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, Law, and the Future of Entertainment. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law and Politics, 2004. Goldsmith, Jack, and Tim Wu. Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. A prescient look at the future of law online and a thoroughly researched rejoinder to anyone who thinks it
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