Parag Khanna
 Parag Khanna    (academic) | |
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| Born | 27 July 1977 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University, London School of Economics |
| Member of | European Council on Foreign Relations, The American Academy in Berlin/Distinguished Visitors, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2009 |
Well-connected 'thinker' who favors Singaporean technocracy | |
Parag Khann s an Indian American specialist in international relations.
He was a was a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior geopolitical adviser to U.S. Special Operations Command.[1]
Career
From 2000 to 2002, he worked at the World Economic Forum.[2] From 1999 to 2000, he was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2006 to 2012, he was a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation[3] in Washington, D.C.. From 2012 to 2018, Khanna was a senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
His other affiliations include Richard von Weizsaecker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in 2017, senior fellow of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (2012–2014), visiting fellow at LSE IDEAS (2011–2013),[4] and senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2011–2013). distinguished visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. In 2010, he became the first video-blogger for ForeignPolicy.com.[5] From 2008 to 2009, Parag was the host of "InnerView" on MTV.[6] Khanna has spoken at multiple TED conferences.[7]
Technocracy
In 2017, Parag Khanna wrote a short treatise, Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State[8]. When discussing the notion of “Big Data,” Khanna noted that Singapore’s prime minister is a computer scientist, and “With the completion of a nation-wide fiber optic Internet roll-out, Singapore’s physical sensor network (‘Internet of Things’), provides enormous volumes of data . . .” Khanna urged that Western democracy be replaced by Singaporean technocracy.
According to Khanna, “. . . it’s time to admit that America needs less of its own version of democracy — much less . . . Democracy alone just isn’t good enough anymore.” He argued, “The search for an optimal state form continues into the information age—and it should logically be called the ‘Info-State’.” ....“Info-states such as Switzerland and Singapore are also the places where we can witness the best efforts at direct technocracy . . . Experiments in direct technocracy are already visible around the world from Estonia and Israel to the UAE and Rwanda to India and China - across both democracies and non-democracies.” Khanna emphatically urged, “Technocracy becomes a form of salvation after society realizes that democracy doesn’t guarantee national success. Democracy eventually gets sick of itself and votes for technocracy.”[9]
Books
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".[10]
In 2011, How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance, Khanna's sequel to The Second World.[11] 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.[12]
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization, was the completion of Khanna's trilogy on world order.[13] 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.[14]
Parag Khanna is co-author with Ayesha Khanna, of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization. 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)".[15]
In 2019, Khanna published the book The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century, which focuses on the shift in global power location from the West to the continent Asia, and comments on the growing common identity among its collective nations.[16] Khanna 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 has shifted away from US hegemony.[17]
His self-published books include Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| WEF/Annual Meeting/2011 | 26 January 2011 | 30 January 2011 | Switzerland World Economic Forum | 2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality". |
References
- ↑ https://londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profile/parag-khanna/
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=aEeTaH3QVU8C&pg=PA191
- ↑ https://canadafreepress.com/article/leading-scholar-outs-global-elite-endgame-as-technocracy
- ↑ https://www.wired.co.uk/article/so-long-information-age-hello-hybrid-age
- ↑ https://newrepublic.com/article/96141/over-rated-thinkers
- ↑ InnerView. 2009. MTV.
- ↑ https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/global-strategist-parag-khanna-to-keynote-urbanity-2018
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Technocracy-America-Info-State-Parag-Khanna/dp/0998232513/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1607727492&sr=8-1
- ↑ quoted in: https://pieceofmindful.com/2020/12/19/part-1-a-star-is-born-ascent-of-the-techno-spore-and-the-descent-of-man/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/magazine/27world-t.html?pagewanted=all
- ↑ Khanna, Parag (2011). How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance. Random House. ISBN 978-1400068272.
- ↑ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2011-03-01/how-run-world-charting-course-next-renaissance
- ↑ http://www.connectography.net/ |
- ↑ https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2016/05/12/bridges-versus-borders
- ↑ https://www.sfgate.com/business/ontherecord/article/Ayesha-Parag-Khanna-on-TED-book-Hybrid-Reality-3697703.php
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