Written by the most esteemed and innovative adventurer-scholar of his generation, Parag Khanna's How to Run the World posits a chaotic modern era that resembles the Middle Ages, with Asian empires, Western militaries, Middle Eastern sheikhdoms, magnetic city-states, wealthy multinational corporations, elite clans, ...
HOW TO RUN THE WORLD
"Parag Khanna makes a powerful argument: The world can be smarter than the sum of its parts. We need to pay attention to his ideas."
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In this provocative book, Parag Khanna turns on its head much of the assumed reality of 21st century power. He suggests that in almost every way modern life is now a retreat to medievalism. Governments no longer have a monopoly on high policy and running countries; NGOs are increasingly more effective; corporations are the new glue.
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Got hold of this book because of a magazine review. Full of facts about the way gov and non-gov agencies influence the (second- more than third-)world, but to my view too little analysis. Could be used for research/opinionated writing.
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This book was silly. Some fun ideas, but absolutely no factual back up, and an almost pathological willingness to ignore the realities of corporate malfeasance. Also, his message got pretty monotonous by about page 75 - it really doesn't change much after that.
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