Connectography : mapping the future of global civilization / Parag Khanna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khanna, Parag, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Geopolitics.

International relations.

International economic relations.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

xxv, 466 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Mapping the future of global civilization

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2016]

Summary:

"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." -- Amazon.com

Contents:

Part One: Connectivity As Destiny

Chapter 1: From Borders To Bridges

Chapter 2: New Maps For A New World

Part Two: Devolution As Destiny

Chapter 3: The Great Devolution

Chapter 4: From Devolution To Aggregation

Chapter 5: The New Manifest Destiny

Part Three: Competitive Connectivity

Chapter 6: World War III

Or Tug-Of-War?

Chapter 7: The Great Supply Chain War

Chapter 8: Infrastructure Alliances

Chapter 9: The New Iron Age

Chapter 10: Hopscotch Across The Oceans

Part Four: From Nations To Nodes

Chapter 11: If You Build It, They Will Come

Chapter 12: Getting On The Map

Chapter 13: Supply Chains As Salvation

Part Five: Toward A Global Society

Chapter 14: Cyber Civilization And Its Discontents

Chapter 15: The Great Dilution

Chapter 16: When Nature Has Its Say, Get Out Of The Way.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-443) and index.

ISBN:

9780812988550

0812988558

OCLC:

922630625