Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, is the author of The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World. He was selected as one of Prospect magazine’s top 50 world thinkers in 2014.
For decades, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been asking whether ten countries with different cultures, political systems, and levels of economic development can act in concert to expan… read more
China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi, and Indonesia's Joko "Jokowi" Widodo could all end up ranked among their countries' greatest modern leaders. But, to succeed, they must embrace policies that… read more
More than one-third of the world’s population lives in just three countries: China, India, and Indonesia. With all three undergoing significant political transitions, this is a decisive moment in shap… read more
To gain purchase on where the world is headed, we must consider three crucial issues: whether the US will reassert its moral leadership; whether China will recapture its economic-growth momentum; and … read more
While most of the world is preparing for the end of the era of US global dominance, Americans are not even entertaining the possibility. Worse, public intellectuals, who are supposed to think the unth… read more
To the extent that culture matters in politics, the recent spate of leadership changes in East Asia suggests that Asian societies are more tolerant – if not supportive – of dynastic succession. But it… read more
In 2016, China’s share of the global economy will be larger than America’s in purchasing-price-parity terms. And yet, after 30 years of geopolitical competence, the Chinese seem to be on the verge of … read more
Despite the fact that most leading East Asian policymakers were trained in American universities, none were seduced by Ronald Reagan’s belief that “government is the problem.” In their own ways, Egypt… read more
The world has recently witnessed two major diplomatic blinks: Japan's unconditional release of a Chinese trawler captain whose ship had rammed a Japanese naval patrol boat, and Barack Obama's … read more
The time has come for the great powers to reassess the value of economic sanctions as a diplomatic cudgel. Imposing sanctions may feel good; but the evidence indicates that, to achieve success and avo… read more
