Connectography
Subtitle: mapping the future of global civilization
By: Parag Khanna
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780812988550
Subjects: Transnationalism; International economic relations; International relations; Human geography; Geopolitics
Other titles: Mapping the future of global civilization
Description: "Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the worlds burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africas fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the worlds ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-443) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Connectivity As Destiny; title: Chapter 1: From Borders To Bridges; title: Chapter 2: New Maps For A New World; title: Part Two: Devolution As Destiny; title: Chapter 3: The Great Devolution; title: Chapter 4: From Devolution To Aggregation; title: Chapter 5: The New Manifest Destiny; title: Part Three: Competitive Connectivity; title: Chapter 6: World War III; title: Or Tug-Of-War?; title: Chapter 7: The Great Supply Chain War; title: Chapter 8: Infrastructure Alliances; title: Chapter 9: The New Iron Age; title: Chapter 10: Hopscotch Across The Oceans; title: Part Four: From Nations To Nodes; title: Chapter 11: If You Build It, They Will Come; title: Chapter 12: Getting On The Map; title: Chapter 13: Supply Chains As Salvation; title: Part Five: Toward A Global Society; title: Chapter 14: Cyber Civilization And Its Discontents; title: Chapter 15: The Great Dilution; title: Chapter 16: When Nature Has Its Say, Get Out Of The Way.