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    The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
    The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
    The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
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    The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century

    Written by Parag Khanna

    Narrated by Nezar Alderazi

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    About this audiobook

    “Foreign policy whiz kid” (The New York Times Book Review) Parag Khanna reveals “a dazzling distillation of the history of the world from an Asian perspective…thorough and clear, offering abundant food for thought” (Kirkus Reviews).

    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, Russia to Australia, Turkey to Indonesia that together represent 40 percent of global GDP. Asia is rapidly returning to the centuries-old patterns of commerce, conflict, and cultural exchange that thrived long before European colonialism and American dominance. Asians will determine their own future—and as they collectively assert their interests around the world, they will determine ours as well.

    In “an authoritative book that may well become a standard” (Financial Times), Parag Khanna explains how Asia’s complexity has led to common misdiagnoses: Western thinking on Asia conflates the entire region with China, predicts imminent World War III around every corner, and regularly forecasts debt-driven collapse for the region’s major economies. But in reality, the region is experiencing a confident new wave of growth led by younger societies from India to the Philippines, nationalist leaders have put aside territorial disputes in favor of integration, and today’s infrastructure investments are the platform for the next generation of digital innovation.

    If the nineteenth century featured the Europeanization of the world, and the twentieth century its Americanization, then the twenty-first century is the time of Asianization. From investment portfolios and trade wars to Hollywood movies and university admissions, no aspect of life is immune from Asianization. “The Future Is Asian offers a valuable and thoroughly researched analysis of one course that the region may take” (The Wall Street Journal).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781508282716
    The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
    Author

    Parag Khanna

    Parag Khanna is the founder and managing partner of FutureMap, a global strategic advisory firm that specializes in data-driven scenarios and visualizations. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including The Second World, Connectography, and The Future Is Asian. Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century” and featured in WIRED’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 150 countries. 

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    • 4/5
      The book had a lot of data and facts that anyone studying Asia would find interesting, however I do take disagree with several themes of this book. For instance, the author continues to think of Asia as a United continent when it is not. He will cite an example of an Indian doing something great and try to credit Asia with the accomplishment. The author does a poor job of incorporating China into Asia as well, and do not mention how China not only wishes to dominate Asia but the world.

      Regardless, a thought provoking book.