商品簡介
Connectography is a bracing and authoritative guide to what Parag Khanna terms our “global network civilization.” Khanna blasts away today’s conventional wisdom. The world craves China’s infrastructure, not American hegemony. The new arms race of the twenty-first century is to connect to the most markets—a race China is winning as it has become the top trade partner of twice as many countries as America.
This book is both an intellectual and a boots-on-the-ground journey. Khanna goes from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, and the Arctic Circle to the South China Sea to show how tug-of-war over pipelines, railways and Internet cables is what conflict looks like today. But Connectography is also a hopeful book, as the increase in connectivity heralds an era of competition but also stability like never before. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious new railways and electricity grids are unscrambling Africa’s fraught colonial borders; and even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource infrastructures across its war-torn landscape. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together.
Khanna’s book provides a blueprint for winning in this new, post-national age. Places that invest in world-class airports, real estate, and schools, and attract the best and brightest—places like New York, Dubai, and Singapore—will lead our global network civilization. Areas that remain isolated from global flows of investment and knowledge will inevitably decay—unless they transform themselves into thriving nodes along the lines set down in this book.
作者簡介
Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and bestselling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also the Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder and CEO of Factotum, a leading content branding agency.
Parag is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization and author ofHow to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured inWired magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than one hundred countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
