A compelling eye-opening account of how Asia is creating a new template for the future of the
world from Parag Khanna a renowned globalization scholar and former senior advisor to the US
National Intelligence Council and Special Operations Forces. Asia is where the action is. Five
billion people one-third of the global economy two-thirds of global economic growth a third
of the Fortune 100 companies eight of the ten largest armies five nuclear powers and massive
technological innovation. Whether using demography geography or economy as a metric Asia is
already the present-and it is certainly the future. In The Future Is Asian Parag Khanna sweeps
us along on his travels spanning Saudi Arabia to Japan and Russia to Australia explaining how
Asia is by far the most ethnically linguistically and culturally diverse region of the
planet. Even for Asians Asia is dizzying to navigate. That complexity leads to common
misdiagnoses: Western thinking on Asia conflates the entire region with China predicts World
War III around every corner and regularly forecasts debt-driven collapse for the region's
major economies. But in the real world the region is experiencing a confident new wave of
growth. India and Southeast Asia are now outpacing China leaders have put aside territorial
disputes in favor of integration and today's infrastructure investments are the platform for
the next generation of urban and digital growth. We cannot afford to continue to get Asia so
wrong warns Khanna. If the nineteenth century featured the Europeanization of the world and
the twentieth century its Americanization then the twenty-first century is surely the time of
Asianization. With America's universities and tech sector dependent on Asian talent and
politicians singing the praises of Asia's glittering cities and efficient governments Asia is
firmly in our nation's consciousness. Now The Future Is Asian accurately shows Asia from the
inside out telling the story of how this mega-region is coming together and reshaping the
entire planet at the same time.
