Parag Khanna - Connectography Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

PRAISE FOR CONNECTOGRAPHY

Connectography is ahead of the curve in seeing the battlefield of the future and the new kind of tug-of-war being waged on it. Khannas scholarship and foresight are world-class.A must-read for the next president.

Chuck Hagel, former U.S. secretary of defense

To get where you want to go, it helps to have a good map. In Connectography, Parag Khanna surveys the economic, political, and technological landscape and lays out the case for why competitive connectivitywith cities and supply chains as the vital nodesis the true arms race of the twenty-first century. This bold reframing is an exciting addition to our ongoing debate about geopolitics and the future of globalization.

Dominic Barton, global managing director, McKinsey & Company

This is probably the most global book ever written. It is intensely specific while remaining broad and wide. Its takeaway is that infrastructure is destiny: Follow the supply lines outlined in this book to see where the future flows.

Kevin Kelly, co-founder, Wired

Parag Khanna takes our knowledge of connectivity into virgin territory, providing an entire atlas on how old and new connections are reshaping our physical, social, and mental worlds. This is a deep and highly informative reflection on the meaning of a rapidly developing borderless world. Connectography proves why the past is no longer prologue to the future. Theres no better guide than Parag Khanna to show us all the possibilities of this new hyperconnected world.

Mathew Burrows, director, Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council, and former counselor, U.S. National Intelligence Council

Reading Connectography is a real adventure. The expert knowledge of Parag Khanna has produced a comprehensive and fascinating book anchored in geography but extending to every field that connects people around the globe. His deep analysis of communications, logistics, and many other globally critical areas is remarkable. The book is full of fascinating insights that we normally would not notice, and his writing reflects his extensive travel experience. His recommended sites and tools for mapping are the most comprehensive that Ive ever seen. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in business, science, arts, or any other field.

Mark Mobius, executive chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group

Connectography gives the reader an amazing new perspective on human society, bypassing the timeworn categories and frameworks we usually use. It shows us a view of our world as a living thing that really exists: the flows of people, ideas, and materials that constitute our constantly evolving reality. Connectography is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the future of humanity.

Alex Sandy Pentland, professor, MIT Media Lab

Khannas new book is a brilliant exploration of supply chain geopolitics and how the intersection of technology with geography is reshaping the global political economy. It is an intellectual tour de force that sparkles with original insights, stimulating assertions, little-known facts, and well-researched predictions. Highly rewarding reading for anyone seeking to understand the contemporary world order and why Chinas one belt, one road project is a winning strategy that outflanks the United States rebalance to Asia by integrating all of Eurasias economies under Chinese auspices.

Chas W. Freeman, Jr., former chairman, U.S. China Policy Foundation, and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Khanna imagines a near-future in which infrastructural and economic connections supersede traditional geopolitical coordinates as the primary means of navigating our world. He makes a persuasive case: Connectography is as compelling and richly expressive as the ancient maps from which it draws its inspiration.

Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO, WPP

From Lagos, Mumbai, Dubai, and Singapore to the Amazon, the Himalayas, the Arctic, and the Gobi desert steppe, Parag Khannas latest book provides an invaluable guide to the volatile, confusing worlds of early twenty-first-century geopolitics. A provocative remapping of contemporary capitalism based on planetary mega-infrastructures, intercontinental corridors of connectivity, and transnational supply chains rather than traditional political borders.

Neil Brenner, director, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

In high style, Parag Khanna reimagines the world through the lens of globally connected supply chain networks. It is a world still fraught with perilsold and newbut one ever more likely to nurture peace and sustain progress.

John Arquilla, professor, United States Naval Postgraduate School

Todays world has multiple geographies that do not fit the old geopolitics of states. In Connectography, Parag Khanna gives us not only new techniques for mapping but a whole new mapdifferent, useful, and mesmerizing.

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

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Names: Khanna, Parag, author.

Title: Connectography : mapping the future of global civilization / Parag Khanna.

Description: First edition. | New York : Random House, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and Index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015041766 | ISBN 9780812988550 |

ISBN 9780812988567 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Human geography. | Geopolitics. | International relations. |

International economic relations. | Transnationalism.

Classification: LCC GF47 .K43 2016 | DDC 303.49022/3dc23 LC record

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