Parag Khanna in Macleans | 'Interview: Parag Khanna'

Communications — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:45:00 -0400

New America in the News:

Parag Khanna, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and director of the Global Governance Initiative, recently published The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order.

[Andrew Coyne, MacLeans]: Maybe we should start with the laying of blame. In 1949 the question was “who lost China?” One question that might be provoked by your book is: Who lost the world? Was it the “imperial overstretch” of the Bush administration? Was it the decade of drift under Bill Clinton? Or was it inevitable that America would lose its position of dominance, no matter what anyone did?

[Parag Khanna]: It was inevitable. Globalization did it, not Bush. What globalization does is resist centralization. You can no longer have central authority over anything, and that applies to America’s hegemonic position in the world as well. Power, technology, money, modernity spread everywhere—just about everywhere—which means countries have the resources now to do whatever they want. America is kind of waking up to that new world where it isn’t the only power. Globalization sets the rules, not America...LINK

Sara Mead in Macleans | 'Playtime's Over'

Communications — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:14:00 -0500

New America in the News:

Playtime's over (Macleans, Canada)

He pointed to researchers like Sara Mead, who studied the data and concluded that "[t]he real story is not bad news about boys doing worse; it’s good news about girls doing better."