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Parag Khanna
THE FUTURE IS ASIAN
Parag Khanna is a leading
global strategy advisor,
best-selling author and TED
speaker. He has written a
number of highly influential
books and his latest book,
coming out in Spring 2019, is
‘The Future is Asian’. It is set
to be the definitive guide to
Asia’s global influence in the
21st century.
Parag explains that in the
19th century, the world was
Europeanized. In the 20th
century it was Americanized.
Now in the 21st century, the world
is being irreversibly Asianized. The
‘Asian Century’ is even bigger than
you think. Far greater than just China,
the new Asian system taking shape is
a multi-civilizational order spanning
Saudi Arabia to Japan, and Russia
to Australia—linking five billion
people through trade, finance and
infrastructure networks that together
represent 40 percent of global GDP.
China has taken a lead in building
the new Silk Roads across Asia, but it
will not lead it alone. Rather, Asia is
returning to the stable multipolar order
that existed long before European
colonialism and American dominance,
with India and Southeast Asia coming
into their own as economic and
strategic hubs.
Dr Khanna states that large but
dormant societies from Iran to
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Indonesia are finally emerging,
teeming with young and urban,
ambitious and entrepreneurial youth,
while from Saudi Arabia to Vietnam,
privatization is unlocking a new
wave of growth. Asians are sharing
economic and governance models
as never before, and their confident
outward push is reshaping business
life and culture across North America
and Europe, South America and
Africa. From investment portfolios and
trade wars to Hollywood movies and
holiday travels, no aspect of life is
immune from Asianization.
To conclude, Parag poses the question
“The world has become used to
hearing “America First”—but is it
ready for “Asia First”? What happens
when Asia no longer just produces for
the West but the West produces for
Asia? And when Asians don’t aspire to
live like the West but rather Western
societies wish they had Asians’
stability and far-sighted leadership?”
Get ready to see the world, and the
future, from the Asian point-of-view.
When he isn’t writing books Parag
Khanna is Founder & Managing
Partner of FutureMap, a data
and scenario based strategic
advisory firm. A widely cited global
intellectual, Dr. Khanna provides
regular commentaries for international
media. He is currently a CNN Global
Contributor. He serves on a number
of advisory boards and he holds a
PhD in international relations from the embrace it.
London School of Economics. Parag
has been honored as a Young Global
Leader of the World Economic Forum,
is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society and in 2002 was awarded the
OECD Future Leaders Prize.
Parag lectures at international
conferences as well as delivering
executive briefings to governments
and corporations on global trends
and scenarios, systemic risks and
technological disruptions in addition
to market entry strategies and
economic master planning. He has
put together a range of industry-
specific comments. We show an
edited selection on the right, for a
greater range click here.
To close on the topic of Asia, Parag
Khanna commented on the recently
released film ‘Crazy Rich Asians’
that although they may appreciate
the romance of the film, western
cinema-goers might be unlikely to
be comfortable with the geopolitical
rebalancing upon which this growing
Asian self-assurance is based. Parag
said “This is a huge change, as it
dawns on the west that Asians used
to make things for us and now we are
making things for them”.
When the media and arts start
portraying ‘the future is Asian’,
you know that it is truly already
happening; let us recognise this and