Tag Archives: International Relations
From Manhattan to Mumbai: Wrestling with the Issues of Our Time
by Katherine Boo, author of the forthcoming Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity (Random House, February 2012). Request an advanced reader’s copy, details below.* As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate … Continue reading
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How to Run the World
by Parag Khanna, author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (Random House, 2011) The past decade—from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the global financial meltdown—has taught us the dangers of interdependence and that outsourcing … Continue reading
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Why Africa is Poor, and What We Can Do About It
by Robert Guest, author of The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives (Smithsonian Books, 2010) I once hitched a ride on a truck through a West African rain forest. The journey was supposed to take less than a day, … Continue reading
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The Enough Moment
by John Prendergast, co-author of The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes (Three Rivers Press, 2010) Three of the most horrible scourges facing humanity are genocide (the destruction of people based on their identity), rape as a war … Continue reading
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Why You’re Wrong About the Crusades
by Lars Brownworth, author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Crown, 2009). There are few words as controversial—or as misunderstood—as ‘crusade’. Those who doubt that need only remember nine years ago when President George … Continue reading
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Do We Live in a Borderless World?
Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, delivered a fascinating talk at this past summer’s TED Conference. At the crux of his speech, and the book, is a rejection of the notion of … Continue reading
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