The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-First Century

Parag Khanna

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9780141027784: The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-First Century

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This book provides a bold & visionary tour of the most important, & least understood, countries shaping the future of the global order.

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Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist, world traveler,andbest-selling author. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre onAsiaand Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the NationalUniversity of Singapore. He is also the Managing Partner ofHybrid Reality, aboutique geostrategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder& CEO of Factotum, aleading content branding agency.
 
Parag's latest book is Technocracy in America: Rise of theInfo-State (2017). He is author of a trilogy of books on the future of worldorder beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New GlobalOrder (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the NextRenaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future ofGlobal Civilization (2016). He is also co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving inthe Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). In 2008, Parag was named oneof Esquire's "75 Most InfluentialPeople of the 21st Century," and featured inWIRED magazine's "SmartList." He holds a PhD from the London School ofEconomics, and Bachelorsand Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Serviceat GeorgetownUniversity. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and is aYoungGlobal Leader of the World Economic Forum.

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