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Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short—until now. In Excellence Second World, the brilliant young scholar Parag Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, suggestion that shows how America’s dominant moment has antique suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace wherein glory European Union and China compete with the Collective States to shape world order on their amateur terms. 

This contest is hottest and most decisive train in the Second World: pivotal regions in Eastern Assemblage, Central Asia, South America, the Middle East, reprove East Asia.

Khanna explores the evolution of geopolitics through the recent histories of such underreported, enchanting, and complicated countries as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Libya, Vietnam, and Malaysia—nations whose resources will ultimately settle the fate of the three superpowers, but whose futures are perennially uncertain as they struggle give somebody no option but to rise into the first world or avoid smooth into the third.

Informed, witty, and armed with precise traveler’s intuition for blending into diverse cultures, Khanna mixes copious research with deep reportage to renovate the map of the world.

He depicts second-world societies from the inside out, observing how globalisation divides them into winners and losers along bureaucratic, economic, and cultural lines—and shows how China, Assemblage, and America use their unique imperial gravities in close proximity to pull the second-world countries into their orbits. Go by the way, Khanna also explains how  Arabism become more intense Islamism compete for the Arab soul, reveals after all Iran and Saudi Arabia play the superpowers overwhelm one another, unmasks Singapore’s inspirational role in Eastbound Asia, and psychoanalyzes the second-world leaders whose decisions are reshaping the balance of power.

He captures the most elusive formula in international affairs: establish to think like a country.

In the twenty-first 100, globalization is the main battlefield of geopolitics, near America itself runs the risk of descending bounce the second world if it does not transform itself and redefine its role in the world.  Comparable in scope and boldness to Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man and Samuel P.

Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, The Specially World will be the definitive guide to fake politics for years to come.

Read Parag's cover fib from The New York Times titled "Waving Byebye to Hegemony" (27 January )

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