• Complain

Khanna - How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance

Here you can read online Khanna - How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: New York, year: 2013;2011, publisher: Random House Publishing Group, genre: Politics. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover
  • Book:
    How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Random House Publishing Group
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2013;2011
  • City:
    New York
  • Rating:
    4 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 80
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relationsa system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the most esteemed and innovative adventurer-scholar of his generation, Parag Khannas How to Run the World posits a chaotic modern era that resembles the Middle Ages, with Asian empires, Western militaries, Middle Eastern sheikhdoms, magnetic city-states, wealthy multinational corporations, elite clans, religious zealots, tribal hordes, and potent media seething in an ever more unpredictable and dangerous storm. But just as that initial dark age ended with the Renaissance, Khanna believes that our time can become a great and enlightened age as wellonly, though, if we harness our technology and connectedness to forge new networks among governments, businesses, and civic interest groups to tackle the crises of today and avert those of tomorrow. With his trademark energy, intellect, and wit, Khanna reveals how a new mega-diplomacy consisting of coalitions among motivated technocrats, influential executives, super-philanthropists, cause-mopolitan activists, and everyday churchgoers can assemble the talent, pool the money, and deploy the resources to make the global economy fairer, rebuild failed states, combat terrorism, promote good governance, deliver food, water, health care, and education to those in need, and prevent environmental collapse. With examples taken from the smartest capital cities, most progressive boardrooms, and frontline NGOs, Khanna shows how mega-diplomacy is more than an ad hoc approach to running a world where no one is in chargeit is the playbook for creating a stable and self-correcting world for future generations. How to Run the World is the cutting-edge manifesto for diplomacy in a borderless world. From the Hardcover edition.

Khanna: author's other books


Who wrote How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Also by Parag Khanna The Second World Empires and Influence in the New - photo 1

Also by Parag Khanna

The Second World:
Empires and Influence in
the New Global Order

Copyright 2011 by Parag Khanna All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2

Copyright 2011 by Parag Khanna

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

R ANDOM H OUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

eISBN: 978-0-679-60428-0

www.atrandom.com

Jacket design: Chin-Yee Lai
Jacket photograph: Brand X/age fotostock

v3.1

For Manjula and Sushil Khanna,
aka Mom and Dad

Contents
Part One
THE NEW WORLD ORDER REALLY
Chapter One
Mega-diplomacy
Chapter Two
The New Diplomats
Chapter Three
The (Fill-in-the-Blank) Consensus
Part Two
SAVING US FROM OURSELVES
Chapter Four
Peace Without War
Chapter Five
The New Colonialism: Better Than the Last
Chapter Six
Terrorists, Pirates, Nukes
Chapter Seven
Getting Rights Right
Part Three
A WORLD OF NEED
Chapter Eight
By Any Means Necessary
Chapter Nine
The Case Against Poverty
Chapter Ten
Your Planet, Your Choice
Chapter Eleven
The Next Renaissance
Part One
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
REALLY

Chapter One Mega-diplomacy Breakdown and failure reveal the true nature of - photo 3

Chapter One
Mega-diplomacy

Breakdown and failure reveal the true nature of things.

K ARL J ASPERS

Two millennia of experience and mountains of knowledge have not made us much more capable of managing our affairs than stone-age people.

M AHATHIR BIN M OHAMED ,
former prime minister of Malaysia

T here is one way to run the world: with diplomacy. Yet for many people, diplomacy is a historical term more than anything useful. That needs to change. Until we evolve a new diplomatic design, we will fail to confront and prevent the constant stream of crisesfrom financial turmoil to failed statesthat engulf us. We are running out of time.

Twenty-first-century diplomacy is coming to resemble that of the Middle Ages: Rising powers, multinational corporations, powerful families, humanitarians, religious radicals, universities, and mercenaries are all part of the diplomatic landscape. Technology and money, not sovereignty, determine who has authority and calls the shots. This can be a good thing if it means getting all hands on deck to managechallenges that no government or organization can tackle alone. Success in this new world of mega-diplomacy hinges on bringing the key players togethergovernments, businesses, and organizationsinto coalitions that can quickly move global resources to solve local problems. This is not your grandfathers diplomacy, but todays Generation Y intuitively gets it.

Diplomacy Is Dead! Long Live Diplomacy!

A t least once every hundred years, the world goes to warand then tries to make lasting peace. During six intense months in Vienna in 1814, ministers of Europes major powersBritains Lord Castlereagh, Frances Talleyrand, Russias czar Alexander I and Count Nesselrode, and Austrias Prince Metternichwere entrusted with redrawing Europes political map after the defeat of Napoleonic France. Their conservative order, the Concert of Europe, lasted essentially until World War I. When the great powers gathered again for six months in Paris in 1919, they were represented by Frances Georges Clemenceau, Britains David Lloyd George, Italys Vittorio Orlando, and Americas Woodrow Wilson. As the statesmen negotiated military disarmament, exchanges of territory, payment of reparations, and the dismantling of colonies, it seemed the whole world was in their handsuntil it all fell apart again. After World War II, Americas Franklin D. Roosevelt envisioned a global version of the Concert of Europe, this time with Four Policementhe United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and Chinaguaranteeing global stability. However, despite the growing membership of the United Nations, Cold War superpower summits reminded the world that some countries were still more equal than others.

Luckily, the Cold War ended without nuclear catastrophe, but the vacuum of the past two decades has yet to give birth to a new global architecture that reflects the rapidly changing realities of power and influence. The nineteenth-century world was run by a few key powers overseeing their colonies, and the twentieth century by power blocks. In the twenty-first century, however, manipulating world order from above wont be enough.

The past decadefrom the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the global financial meltdownhas taught us the dangers of interdependence and that outsourcing leadership is a recipe for disaster. Some now fear a breakdown of our global order, but isnt it scarier to realize that the present order has already been broken for years? Its the kind of moment the philosopher Karl Popper had in mind when he argued that tearing down our existing order and constructing a new one from scratch might lead to a more workable system.

How bad is it? Well, today the powers that are expected to keep the peace sell the most weapons, the banks that are supposed to encourage saving promote living beyond ones means, and food arrives to hungry people after theyve died. We are hurtling toward a perfect storm of energy consumption, population growth, and food and water scarcity that will spare no one, rich or poor. Our ever-growing list of crises includes financial instability, HIV/AIDS, terrorism, failed states, and more. Any one of these can magnify another, creating a downward spiral for individual nations and regions. Within the next twenty years we could see proxy skirmishes escalate into major war between America and China, more weak states crumbling, conflicts over submerged oil and gas resources at sea, drought-starved refugees streaming out of central Africa, and sinking Pacific islands.

Henry Kissinger said it best: You do not design a new world order as an emergency measure. But you need an emergency to bring about a new world order. Finally, there is a global debate under way about how to redesign the way we run the world. Its about timeand hopefully not too late. Globalization has thrust us into a chaotic era with which our leading powers and institutions only pretend they can cope. Americans believe they can lead a multi-partner world, Europeans think they can tame the world through civilian power, the Chinese try to buy the world off, most other states just want status without responsibility, and the United Nations is barely spoken of anymore. They all need to seriously rethink how the world is run. The notion of a G-2 axis between the United States and China is the latest misguided incarnation of our quest for a simple global frameworkit ignores the fact that the two powers cant agree on currency, climate, censorship, or many other issues, and that few if any countries want to be dictated to by either the United States or China.

There is no doubt that we need a global redesign to confront this perfect stormone that doesnt just react to crises but proactively prevents them. What we have right now, though, is global policy gridlock: The West demands interventions and human rights, while the East prefers sovereignty and noninterference; the North is scared of terrorism and proliferation, while the South needs food security and fair trade. Stock prices are crucial for the capital rich; commodities prices for the resource rich. Americans are suspicious of Chinese state-owned companies, while the Chinese are suspicious of American regulators. We seem as far away as ever from a new consensus.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance»

Look at similar books to How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance»

Discussion, reviews of the book How to run the world: charting a course to the next renaissance and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.