Parag Khanna >From Wikipedia Parag Khanna (born 1977 in _Kanpur_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur) , _Uttar Pradesh_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh) , _India_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) ) is an _Indian American_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_American) author and _international relations_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_relations) expert. He is the author of How to Run the World: Charting the Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), both published by Random House, and co-author of "Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization" (2012), published by TED Books. Khanna attended the _Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_A._Walsh_School_of_Foreign_Service) at _Georgetown University_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University) and _Freie Universität Berlin_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Universität_Berlin) , majoring in international affairs and then earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and a minor in Philosophy, and a Master of Arts in Security Studies. He received his _PhD_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy) in international relations at the _London School of Economics_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics) ._[1]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parag_Khanna#cite_note-bio-1) Khanna is a Senior Research Fellow at the _New America Foundation_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_America_Foundation) , which he says he was drawn to because of its _radical centrist_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_center_(politics)) orientation._[2]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parag_Khanna#cite_note-2) He is also a Senior Fellow of the _European Council on Foreign Relations_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council_on_Foreign_Relations) , a Visiting Fellow of _LSE IDEAS_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSE_IDEAS) , and a Senior Fellow of the _Singapore Institute of International Affairs_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Institute_of_International_Affairs) . In 2013 he was an adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He has worked as an analyst for the _Council on Foreign Relations_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations) , the _World Economic Forum_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum) and the _Brookings Institution_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution) , where we was the Global Governance Fellow. In 2007, he was a geopolitical advisor to the _United States Special Operations Forces_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Forces) in _Iraq_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq) and _Afghanistan_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan) . He is a member of the Board of _Independent Diplomat_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Diplomat) and the New Cities Foundation. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Khanna is a columnist for CNN.com and regularly appears on CNN, BBC, CNBC, and other international television networks His essay, "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony", was the cover story on the _New York Times Magazine_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Magazine) on January 27, 2008._[3]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parag_Khanna#cite_note-3) He coined the term "geopolitical marketplace" to refer to the dynamic where the superpowers (US, EU and China) compete for the influence of the "second world." By "second world," Khanna refers to those pivotal regions in the Middle East, Latin America, Central and South Asia, East Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Countries in the second world, like Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Brazil, India, Russia, Libya, Vietnam and Malaysia, simultaneously have both first world and third world characteristics. They engage in multi-alignment vis-a-vis the US, EU, and China. Khanna currently resides in Singapore with his wife, Ayesha Khanna, daughter Zara and son Zubin. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
