Connectography, Parag Khanna
Connectography, Parag Khanna
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Connectography
Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

Author: Parag Khanna

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 16 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/23/2016

Synopsis

Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind 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 to explain the 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.

About Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna is a global strategist, world traveler, and bestselling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and a senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Parag is coauthor of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization and author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. He has been a fellow at the New America Foundation and Brookings Institution, advised the U.S. National Intelligence Council, and worked in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical adviser to U.S. Special Operations Forces. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a PhD from the London School of Economics. He serves on numerous governmental and corporate advisory boards and is a councilor of the American Geographical Society, a trustee of the New Cities Foundation, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dominic on May 05, 2016

Parag Khanna reminds me of a younger Thomas Friedman. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Friedman was the most visible and prolific apostle of globalization (most notably in "The Lexus and the Olive Tree"). Khanna is now taking on that mantle. The biggest difference between Friedman and Khanna i......more

Goodreads review by Rob on August 31, 2016

I really enjoyed this book. It is dense but the macro concepts are so important. In a nutshell: Man-made borders are not as important as man-made supply chains. Nation building within man-made borders is not as important as group affinity - think along the lines of "I'm a Google'r" vs "I'm Canadian"......more

Goodreads review by Murtaza on December 29, 2016

This is an optimistic take on globalization, which argues that infrastructure investment and connectivity is the key to unlocking the full potential of societies. As Khanna argues (fairly persuasively, in my own opinion), globalization is generally a positive, but its benefits have not yet been exte......more

Goodreads review by Dina on July 14, 2016

Author is overly excited about globalization, overestimating and exaggerating its benefits without representing a balanced assessment. The book does assume rightly however that corporations and businesses matter more than governments, but it is not really presented in a critical way but a champion f......more

Goodreads review by Martinocorre on August 16, 2023

Un vero e proprio manifesto Pro-Globalizzazione, uscito però nel 2016 cioè pre-Brexit e soprattutto pre-Trump. Che dire, l'autore si è infilato gli occhiali rosa Globalize e vede solo cose meravigliose e mirabolanti grazie ad un mondo iper-connesso, senza più confini, senza la necessità degli Stati,......more

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