Simon & Schuster, New York (penerbit edisi pertama, 2019, dengan anak judul Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century; edisi Inggris oleh Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2019; edisi eksemplar ini belum diperiksa) · Pada sampul depan terlihat judul The Future Is Asian, anak judul Global Order in the Twenty-first Century, nama Parag Khanna, kutipan "A foreign policy whiz kid" dari New York Times Book Review, serta peta dunia bertitik dengan Asia disorot warna oranye dan merah. Eksemplar ini bersampul lunak (paperback) dan memiliki label perpustakaan di sisi kiri sampul. Anak judul sesuai dengan edisi Inggris Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, 2019); edisi Amerika terbit pada 2019 oleh Simon & Schuster dengan anak judul berbeda. Penerbit, tahun cetak, ISBN, dan jumlah halaman eksemplar ini belum diverifikasi. · 2019
Abstract
Parag Khanna argues that the twenty-first century will be shaped largely by Asia, seen as a system of networks of trade, investment, infrastructure, migration and diplomacy stretching from the Gulf and Turkey to Japan and Australia. His Asia is multipolar, not identical with China, and cannot be dominated by any single power. Across ten chapters the book retells world history from an Asian viewpoint, traces regional reintegration through infrastructure such as the Belt and Road Initiative, follows waves of growth from Japan to Southeast Asia, examines ties with the Americas, Europe and Africa, and advances a contested thesis on the advantages of Singapore-style technocracy. It appeared in 2019 from Simon & Schuster (US) and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK). For ASEAN and Indonesia the book matters because it presents Southeast Asia as a new growth engine and echoes ASEAN centrality and a free and active foreign policy.
Identifier
KBA-BKU-2019-0004
Type
Buku
Publisher
Simon & Schuster, New York (penerbit edisi pertama, 2019, dengan anak judul Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century; edisi Inggris oleh Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2019; edisi eksemplar ini belum diperiksa)
Date Issued
2019
Bibliographic Citation
Pada sampul depan terlihat judul The Future Is Asian, anak judul Global Order in the Twenty-first Century, nama Parag Khanna, kutipan "A foreign policy whiz kid" dari New York Times Book Review, serta peta dunia bertitik dengan Asia disorot warna oranye dan merah. Eksemplar ini bersampul lunak (paperback) dan memiliki label perpustakaan di sisi kiri sampul. Anak judul sesuai dengan edisi Inggris Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, 2019); edisi Amerika terbit pada 2019 oleh Simon & Schuster dengan anak judul berbeda. Penerbit, tahun cetak, ISBN, dan jumlah halaman eksemplar ini belum diverifikasi.
Asia -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; Economic development -- Asia -- 21st century; Asia -- Economic integration; Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Economic forecasting -- Asia
BISAC Category
POL011000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; BUS069000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
Language
Inggris
Description
Parag Khanna is a global strategist and author, born in India and raised in the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Germany, who has long been based in Singapore. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Georgetown University and a doctorate from the London School of Economics. He has worked at the New America Foundation and the Brookings Institution, served as a senior research fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and later founded FutureMap, a data- and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. His earlier books include The Second World (2008), How to Run the World (2011), Connectography (2016) and Technocracy in America (2017), and Move followed in 2021. The cover of this copy carries a quotation from the New York Times Book Review calling him a foreign policy whiz kid, a phrase often used in promoting his books.
The book was first published in February 2019 in New York by Simon & Schuster with the subtitle Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century, running to about 433 pages with colour maps and illustrations. In the same year Weidenfeld & Nicolson in London issued a British edition with a different subtitle, Global Order in the Twenty-first Century. The subtitle on the cover of this copy matches the British edition, so this copy is most likely a Weidenfeld & Nicolson paperback. Its printing year, ISBN and page count, however, have not yet been checked against the copyright page. The book has also been translated into several languages and circulates widely in Asia.
Khanna's central thesis is that the world is entering a phase in which Asia, understood not merely as a continent but as a system of networks of trade, investment, infrastructure, migration and diplomacy stretching from the Gulf and Turkey to Japan and Australia, is once again becoming the centre of gravity of world order. In his view the nineteenth century was Europe's and the twentieth America's, while the twenty-first will be shaped to a large extent by Asia. He insists that Asia is not a synonym for China. The Asia he describes is multipolar, made up of dozens of states with their own strengths and interests, which in his view makes a single Chinese domination of the region impossible.
The book opens with an introduction, Asia First, followed by ten chapters and an epilogue. The first chapter offers a history of the world from an Asian point of view, and the second draws lessons from Asian history for Asia and for the world, including the long experience of trade routes and exchange among civilisations. The third chapter, The Return of Greater Asia, discusses the reintegration of the region through infrastructure, energy and diplomacy, including the Belt and Road Initiative. The fourth, Asia-nomics, examines the waves of economic growth that moved from Japan and South Korea to China and now to South and Southeast Asia. The fifth and sixth chapters deal with Asia's relations with the Americas and Europe, including the Asian diaspora in America and a Europe that, in Khanna's account, welcomes Asian capital but has not yet fully welcomed Asian people.
The seventh chapter, The Return of Afroeurasia, places Asia within a wider network linking it to Africa and Europe. The eighth, The New Pacific Partnership, considers the future of relations between Asia and the United States in the Pacific. The ninth, Asia's Technocratic Future, sets out the book's most contested argument: that results-oriented technocratic governance, of the kind exemplified by Singapore, may serve many Asian societies more effectively than Western-style liberal democracy. The tenth chapter, Asia Goes Global, discusses the spread of Asian culture, consumption and influence across the world as a fusion of civilisations. The epilogue summarises Khanna's view of Asia's global future.
Key concepts in the book include Asianization, the process by which Asia's weight in the world economy, politics and culture is growing; Asia as an interconnected regional system; a multipolar world order; technocracy; and connectivity, a concept he had developed in Connectography. Khanna also stresses that Asian states put sovereignty, stability and economic development ahead of ideological alliances, and so tend to behave pragmatically towards both the United States and China. The book is rich in maps, data and sketches from field visits, in keeping with a style that mixes geopolitical analysis with travel narrative.
Reception of the book was mixed. Some reviewers praised its breadth, the clarity of its argument and its willingness to challenge Western-centred views. Kirkus Reviews, for example, found it elegant and thought-provoking, while noting that readers strongly committed to individual liberties might object to its praise of technocracy. Other critics pointed to what they saw as excessive optimism, an oversimplification of Asia's enormous diversity, too little attention to inequality, internal conflict and human rights, and a tendency to view Asia through the eyes of business elites and global cities such as Singapore. Some observers also doubted whether a region stretching from the Middle East to the Pacific can sensibly be treated as a single coherent system.
For ASEAN and Indonesia the book holds particular significance. Khanna presents Southeast Asia as one of the engines of the next wave of Asian growth and names Indonesia among the countries driving that wave. His picture of a multipolar Asia in which middle powers refuse to submit to any single great power fits well with Indonesia's free and active (bebas aktif) foreign policy and with the idea of ASEAN centrality. His praise of Singapore as both a technocratic model and a hub of Asian networks is also relevant to debates about governance in the region. Indonesian readers, however, should read his advocacy of technocracy critically, given Indonesia's own historical experience of governments that placed stability and development above political participation.
For the Muslim world, the book is relevant because Khanna includes the Gulf states, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia within his map of Asia, so that a large share of the world's Muslims live inside the Asian system he describes. Even so, the book deals far more with economics and geopolitics than with religion, and Islam as a civilisational force is not its main focus. For Aceh, the book does not discuss the province specifically, but its discussion of maritime connectivity, Indian Ocean trade routes and the revival of Asian trading networks can prompt reflection on Aceh's historical position on the Strait of Malacca and its prospects in the future.
This copy is a paperback. Its cover shows a dotted world map with Asia highlighted in orange and red, the title The Future Is Asian, the subtitle Global Order in the Twenty-first Century, the name Parag Khanna and a quotation from the New York Times Book Review. A library label is attached on the left side of the cover. The publisher, printing year, ISBN and page count of this copy have not been verified, because only a photograph of the front cover is available.
As part of the KBA13 Academy Archive and Library, this book serves as a reference for studies of the rise of Asia, Asian geopolitics and geoeconomics, multipolar world order, and the place of ASEAN and Indonesia in the global order of the twenty-first century. The archive also provides material that informs the studies carried out at KBA13 Academy and KBA13 Insight.
Parag Khanna, “The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century”, Simon & Schuster, New York (penerbit edisi pertama, 2019, dengan anak judul Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century; edisi Inggris oleh Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2019; edisi eksemplar ini belum diperiksa), Pada sampul depan terlihat judul The Future Is Asian, anak judul Global Order in the Twenty-first Century, nama Parag Khanna, kutipan "A foreign policy whiz kid" dari New York Times Book Review, serta peta dunia bertitik dengan Asia disorot warna oranye dan merah. Eksemplar ini bersampul lunak (paperback) dan memiliki label perpustakaan di sisi kiri sampul. Anak judul sesuai dengan edisi Inggris Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, 2019); edisi Amerika terbit pada 2019 oleh Simon & Schuster dengan anak judul berbeda. Penerbit, tahun cetak, ISBN, dan jumlah halaman eksemplar ini belum diverifikasi., 2019. KBA13 Academy Archive and Library, KBA-BKU-2019-0004.
