Parag Khanna
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Parag Khanna, 15 March 2012
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27 July 1977 Kanpur, India |
| Occupation | Author, analyst, global theorist, advisor |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Ayesha Khanna |
| Children | 2 |
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Parag Khanna (born 27 July 1977) is an international relations expert and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also the Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a geostrategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum, a boutique content strategy agency.
Khanna was born in Kanpur, India. His childhood was spent between India and the United Arab Emirates before his family moved to New York City. For his final year at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, Khanna moved to Flensburg, Germany, as an exchanged student and attended the Altes Gymnasium, where he completed the requirements for an Abitur degree.
Khanna attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, earning a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs in 1999 and a minor degree in Philosophy from Georgetown’s College of Arts & Sciences. He also earned a Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown in 2005. In 2010, he received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Khanna's first book was The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, published by Random House in 2008 (). It was an international bestseller and translated into more than twenty languages. The book was serialized as a cover story for the New York Times Magazine titled "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony." It became a globally debated issue and could be said to be one of the most influential essays since the end of the Cold War. The paperback edition released in 2009 carried the subtitle "How Emerging Powers are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century."
Khanna traveled to more than 40 countries to research The Second World. In the book, he coins the term "geopolitical marketplace" to refer to the dynamic where the superpowers (US, EU and China) compete for the influence in emerging markets that he refers to as "second world," which are pivotal regions in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia. Countries in the second world, like Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and many others simultaneously have both first world and third world characteristics. They engage in multi-alignment vis-a-vis the US, EU, and China to gain maximum diplomatic leverage. The book’s style is a mix of narrative reportage and grand strategy analysis.
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