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Connectography Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
Author: Parag Khanna

From the visionary bestselling author of "The Second World "and" How to Run the World "comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers and people will win. — Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind... more » is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world s burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny.

In "Connectography, "visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets a race China is now winning, having launched a wave of infrastructure investments to unite Eurasia around its new Silk Roads. The United States can only regain ground by fusing with its neighbors into a super-continental North American Union of shared resources and prosperity.

"Connectography" offers a unique and hopeful vision for the future. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africa s fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the world s ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together.

Praise for "Connectography

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Incredible . . . With the world rapidly changing and urbanizing, [Khanna s] proposals might be the best way to confronta radically different future. "The Washington Post"

Clear and coherent . . . a well-researched account of how companies are weaving ever more complicated supply chains that pull the world together even as they squeeze out inefficiencies. . . . [He] has succeeded in demonstrating that the forces of globalization are winning. Adrian Woolridge, "The Wall Street Journal"

Bold . . . With an eye for vivid details, Khanna has . . . produced an engaging geopolitical travelogue. "Foreign Affairs"

Connectivity has become a basic human right, and gives everyone on the planet the opportunity to provide for their family and contribute to our shared future. "Connectography" charts the future of this connected world. Marc Andreessen, general partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Ahead of the curve in seeing the battlefield of the future and the new kind of tug-of-war being waged on it. Khanna s scholarship and foresight are world-class. A must-read for the next president. Chuck Hagel, former U.S. secretary of defense "From the Hardcover edition.""

ISBN-13: 9780812988574
ISBN-10: 0812988574
Publication Date: 2/7/2017
Pages: 496
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Publisher: Random House Trade
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 1
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Genres:

Business & Money >> International >> Economics
Business & Money >> Processes & Infrastructure >> Infrastructure
Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Human Geography
Uncategorized >> International & World Politics >> Trades & Tariffs
Nonfiction >> Politics >> Globalization

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