Parag Khanna

Khanna was born in Kanpur, India.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEeTaH3QVU8C&pg=PA191|title=Indian Diaspora in the United States: Brain Drain or Gain?|first=Anjali|last=Sahay|date=16 May 2009|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=9780739135495|via=Google Books}} His childhood was spent between India and the United Arab Emirates before his family moved to New York City.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/parag-and-ayesha-khanna-foresee-a-hybrid-future-and-its-great/2012/07/02/gJQAX8REJW_story.html|title=Parag and Ayesha Khanna foresee a hybrid future, and it's great|newspaper=Washington Post}} He obtained a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University,{{cite web|url=http://www.siiaonline.org/connectography-mapping-the-future-of-global-civilization-2/|title=Singapore Institute of International Affairs - Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization|website=www.siiaonline.org}} and also a Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown in 2005.{{cite web|url=https://canadafreepress.com/article/leading-scholar-outs-global-elite-endgame-as-technocracy|title=Leading Scholar Outs Global Elite Endgame As Technocracy|website=canadafreepress.com}} In 2010, he received his PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics.{{Cite thesis|title=The World Economic Forum: An anatomy of multi-stakeholder global policy-making.|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2389/|publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science|date=2010|degree=phd|language=en|first=Parag|last=Khanna}}{{cite web|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/directdemocracy/parag-khanna_democracies-need-to-be-more-direct--more-digital-and-more-local/43899900|title=Parag Khanna gives his prescription for democracy|first=Bruno|last=Kaufmann|date=16 February 2018 }}

In 2007, Khanna served as a Senior Geopolitical Advisor to US Special Operations Forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Parag Khanna|url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/parag-khanna/|access-date=2021-02-10|website=The American Academy in Berlin|language=en-US}}{{better source needed|date=August 2022}}{{Cite web|title=CNN Profiles - Parag Khanna - Global Contributor|url=https://www.cnn.com/profiles/parag-khanna|access-date=2021-02-10|website=CNN}}{{better source needed|date=August 2022}}

Khanna's first book was The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. In 2008,

Khanna authored an essay adapted from this book in the New York Times Magazine titled "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony".{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/magazine/27world-t.html?pagewanted=all |title=Waving Goodbye to Hegemony |work=The New York Times |first=Parag |last=Khanna |date=January 27, 2008}}

In 2011, How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance, Khanna's sequel to The Second World.{{cite book |title=How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance |first=Parag |last=Khanna |publisher=Random House |year=2011|isbn=978-1400068272 }} In the book, he argues that the world is entering a “postmodern Middle Ages” in which global governance takes the form of “mega-diplomacy” among coalitions of public and private actors.{{Cite web |last=Bayrasli |first=Elmira |title=Book Review: How to Run the World |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/elmirabayrasli/2011/02/21/book-review-how-to-run-the-world/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Forbes |language=en}}

In 2012, Khanna co-authored a book with Ayesha Khanna, called Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization.{{cite news |last1=Chhabra |first1=Esha |title=Ayesha, Parag Khanna on TED book 'Hybrid Reality' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/ontherecord/article/Ayesha-Parag-Khanna-on-TED-book-Hybrid-Reality-3697703.php |work=SFGATE |date=11 July 2012}} The book presents how humanity is moving beyond the information revolution into a "Hybrid Age" in which technology is incorporated into all aspects of human life. It developed concepts such as "geotechnology" and "Technology Quotient (TQ)".{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/ontherecord/article/Ayesha-Parag-Khanna-on-TED-book-Hybrid-Reality-3697703.php|title=Ayesha, Parag Khanna on TED book 'Hybrid Reality'|date=11 July 2012|newspaper=SFGate}}

In 2016, his book Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization, was the completion of Khanna's trilogy on world order.{{cite web |url=http://www.connectography.net/ |title=Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization |publisher=connectography.net}} ({{ISBN|0812988558}}) The book argues that connectivity in the form of transportation, energy and communications infrastructure has brought about a "global network revolution" in which human civilization becomes reorganized according to cities and supply chains more than nations and borders.{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2016/05/12/bridges-versus-borders|title=Bridges versus borders}}

In 2017, Amazon CreateSpace published his book Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State. It argued that the US government requires a better balance between representation and administration, explored diverse governance systems and proposed an organizational redesign for the US federal government.{{cite news |last1=Landy |first1=Benjamin |title=To save America, break up the presidency: Parag Khanna's radical design for U.S. democracy |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90473658/to-save-america-break-up-the-presidency-parag-khannas-radical-design-for-u-s-democracy |work=Fast Company |date=9 March 2020}}

In 2019, Khanna published the book The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century, which analyses the shift in global power location from the West to the continent Asia, and comments on the growing common identity among its collective nations.{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/452df746-f880-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c |title=China, America and the road to a new world order |website=Financial Times|date=6 December 2018}} He examines the reemergence of an "Asian system" after the end of colonialism and Cold War, and how Asia's collective rise impacts geopolitics, economics, and culture, which have all shifted away from US hegemony.{{Cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/parag-khanna/the-future-is-asian/ |title=THE FUTURE IS ASIAN by Parag Khanna | Kirkus Reviews |access-date=2019-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209134949/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/parag-khanna/the-future-is-asian/ |archive-date=2019-02-09 |url-status=dead }}

In 2021, Simon & Schuster published MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us, in which Khanna forecasts the future of human geography in light of colliding megatrends such as demographics, geopolitics, technological automation and climate change.{{cite news |title=Book review - MOVE |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/parag-khanna-20743/move-khanna/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

In 2011, editors at The New Republic named him one of the "Most Over-Rated Thinkers" of the year, calling Khanna's book How to Run The World a "self-congratulatory anthology of clichés and platitudes".{{cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/96141/over-rated-thinkers|title=Over-Rated Thinkers|magazine=The New Republic|date=3 November 2011}} In the same magazine a year later, Evgeny Morozov was strongly critical of Khanna when he reviewed Hybrid Reality by describing Khanna as an "intellectual impostor" possessed of "contempt for democracy and human rights" and criticising his admiration of authoritarian governments in China and Singapore.{{cite magazine|last1=Morozov|first1=Evgeny|title=The Naked and the Ted|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna|magazine=The New Republic|accessdate=30 June 2017|date=2 August 2012}}

Khanna has participated in multiple TED conferences.{{cite web|url=https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/global-strategist-parag-khanna-to-keynote-urbanity-2018|title=Global Strategist Parag Khanna to Keynote Urbanity '18|date=19 July 2018}} In 2009 he gave a keynote talk at TED Global in Oxford, England on "Invisible Maps."{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRWTyUVh0BQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/XRWTyUVh0BQ |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Parag Khanna maps the future of countries |date=28 September 2009 |publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} He was also a guest host of TED Global 2012, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, whose theme was "Radical Openness." He curated a session of speakers on the theme of "The Upside of Transparency" including Sanjay Pradhan, Beth Noveck, Heather Brooke, Marc Goodman and Deyan Sudjic.{{cite web |url=http://blog.ted.com/the-upside-and-downside-of-transparency-qa-with-tedglobal-guest-host-parag-khanna/ |title=The upside and downside of transparency: Q&A with TEDGlobal guest host Parag Khanna |work=TED Blog|date=22 June 2012 }} In 2016, he spoke at the main TED conference{{cite web|url=https://conferences.ted.com/TED2016/|title=TED2016: Dream|website=conferences.ted.com}} held in Vancouver, Canada, on "how megacities are changing the map of the world."{{cite web|url=http://www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_how_megacities_are_changing_the_map_of_the_world|title=How megacities are changing the map of the world|date=5 April 2016 }}

Khanna was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize in 2002. In 2008, he was named one of Esquire{{'}}s "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century",{{cite web |url=http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/g82/most-influential-21st-century-1008/?slide=74 |title=Influential People – 21st Century |work=Esquire|date=16 September 2008 }} and featured in Wired magazine's "Smart List".{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2008/09/sl-intro/|title=The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To|author=WIRED Staff|date=2008-09-22|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-04-01|issn=1059-1028}} He has received research grants from the United Nations Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and Ford Foundation.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldaffairscouncils.org/images/insert/ParagKhanna.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707160346/http://www.worldaffairscouncils.org/images/insert/ParagKhanna.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 7, 2010 |title=Parag Khanna |website=WorldAffairsCouncils.org}} He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.{{cite news |title=C&W Agency |url=https://cwagency.co.uk/client/parag-khanna |work=cwagency.co.uk}}{{better source needed|date=August 2022|reason=this isn't independent of the subject}}

• The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, Random House, 2008. {{ISBN|1-4000-6508-9}}.
• How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance, Random House, 2011. {{ISBN|1-4000-6827-4}}.
• Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization, New York: Random House, 2016. {{ISBN|9780812988550}}, {{OCLC|962478258}}
• Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, TED Books, 2012. {{ISBN|9781937382162}}
• Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State. Kentucky : CreateSpace, 2017. {{ISBN|9780998232515}}, {{OCLC|985104616}}
• The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. {{ISBN|9781501196263}}, {{OCLC|1083524788}}
• MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us. Simon & Schuster, 2021. {{ISBN|1982168978}}, {{ISBN|9781982168971}}

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