The Future Is Asian
Global Order in the Twenty-first Century
$40.70
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
26 November 2019
Summary
Five billion people, two-thirds of the world’s mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranked universities. Asia is also the world’s most ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse region of the planet, eluding any remotely meaningful generalization beyond the geographic label …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474610681 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474610684 |
| Author: | Parag Khanna |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 26 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘Offers a comprehensive worldview from an Asian perspective … Khanna is thorough and clear, offering abundant food for thought’
In an authoritative book which may well become a standard reference … Parag Khanna casts the net wider to deliver a compelling argument that Asia - rather than merely China - is the current and future lodestar for the global economy. Of Asia’s nearly 5bn people, 3.5bn are not Chinese - Financial Times
An upbeat examination of a changing “Greater Asia” … Eurasia’s future is likely to be more ductile than fixed and hegemonic. In this new world order, actions still lead to reactions - The EconomistThe Future Is Asian offers a valuable and thoroughly researched analysis - Wall Street JournalAbout The Author
Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna is Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial predictive location analytics platform. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019), as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York and Germany, he has travelled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
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