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

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.

Khanna, a widely recognized expert on global politics, offers an study of the 21st century's emerging geopolitical marketplace dominated by three first world superpowers, the U.S., Europe and China. Each competes to lead the new century, pursuing that goal in the third world: select eastern European countries, east and central Asia, the Middle East Latin America, and North Africa. The U.S. offers military protection and aid. Europe offers deep reform and economic association. China offers full-service, condition-free relationships. Each can be appealing; none has obvious advantages. The key to Khanna's analysis, however, is his depiction of a second world: countries in transition. They range in size and population from heavily peopled states like Brazil and Indonesia to smaller ones such as Malaysia. Khanna interprets the coming years as being shaped by the race to win the second world—and in the case of the U.S., to avoid becoming a second-world country itself. The final pages of his book warn eloquently of the risks of imperial overstretch combined with declining economic dominance and deteriorating quality of life. By themselves those pages are worth the price of a book that from beginning to end inspires reflection. (Mar. 11)
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