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Parag Khanna

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Parag Khanna is Managing Partner and Founder of FutureMap, a data- and scenario-based strategic advisory firm, and the author of numerous books, including Connectography, Technocracy in America, and The Future is Asian. 

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  1. How to Live with the Pandemic
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    How to Live with the Pandemic

    Jul 7, 2020 Michael Ferrari, et al. identify three issues that should remain on everyone's radar in the coming months.

  2. Can the East Save the West?
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    Can the East Save the West?

    May 10, 2019 Parag Khanna expects the governance paradigm that has taken root in fast-growing Asia to spread globally in the coming years.

  3. The World Economy’s Urban Future
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    The World Economy’s Urban Future

    Aug 10, 2018 Parag Khanna argues that, while countries and regions struggle, cities are developing the economic models the world needs.

  4. Recovering the Promise of Technocracy
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    Recovering the Promise of Technocracy

    Feb 3, 2017 Parag Khanna proposes a new system of governance that can finally address US and European voters' grievances.

  5. Disciplining the Sharing Economy
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    Disciplining the Sharing Economy

    Sep 25, 2014 Ayesha Khanna & Parag Khanna on why smart regulation will bring the best out of the sharing economy.

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    What the G20 Can Do for Africa’s Energy Agenda

    Samia Suluhu Hassan explains how climate finance could unleash the continent's economic potential.
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    The Key to Africa’s Vaccine Sovereignty

    Nana Akufo-Addo urges donor governments to build on successful efforts to boost immunization across the continent.
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    For Developing Economies, the Finance Landscape Has Become a Wasteland

    Indermit Gill shows that current conditions give the world's poorest countries no chance to achieve sustained growth.
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    How Not to React to Donald Trump

    Andrés Velasco calls for more serious thinking by progressives and fewer knee-jerk calls to “abandon neoliberalism.”
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    The Fall and Rise of American Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu

    Over time, as American democracy has increasingly fallen short of delivering on its core promises, the Democratic Party has contributed to the problem by catering to a narrow, privileged elite. To restore its own prospects and America’s signature form of governance, it must return to its working-class roots.

     is not surprised that so many voters ignored warnings about the threat Donald Trump poses to US institutions.
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    Enrique Krauze on Baruch Spinoza, the US election, Mexican democracy, and more

    Enrique Krauze considers the responsibility of the state to guarantee freedom, heralds the demise of Mexico’s democracy, highlights flaws in higher-education systems, and more.
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    Does a Savage War of Partition Await Ukraine?

    Nina L. Khrushcheva

    Donald Trump appears bent on striking a “peace” deal with Russia that involves Ukraine’s dismemberment. From Poland in the eighteenth century to the Indian subcontinent in the twentieth, history amply demonstrates that the kind of partition this implies is likely to bring horrifying violence and long-lasting enmity.

     traces the grim history of territorial divisions like the one that Donald Trump seems to be envisioning.
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    America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump

    Yanis Varoufakis shows why the incoming US administration can’t eliminate the negative balance – and wouldn’t even if it could.
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    Trump’s Middle East Challenge

    Daoud Kuttab highlights the changes in the region that will complicate the US president-elect's peacemaking efforts.

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