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 Kishore
Mahbubani is the author of the new book
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible
Shift of Power to the East, available early 2008,
as well as Can Asians Think?
and Beyond the Age of Innocence:
Rebuilding Trust between America and the World.
Now the Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy
of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National
University of Singapore, he served for 33 years as a diplomat
for Singapore and has written many articles on world affairs.
This website will introduce you to his writings: you can
learn more about his books and read some of his articles
and interviews.
The
New Asian Hemisphere
The Irresistible Shift of Global Power
to the East
For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians,
Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history.
Now they are ready to become co-drivers.
Asians have finally understood, absorbed,
and implemented Western best practices in many areas: from
free-market economics to modern science and technology,
from meritocracy to rule of law. They have also become innovative
in their own way, creating new patterns of cooperation not
seen in the West.
Will the West resist the rise of Asia?
The good news is that Asia wants to replicate, not dominate,
the West. For a happy outcome to emerge, the West must gracefully
give up its domination of global institutions, from the
IMF to the World Bank, from the G7 to the UN Security Council.
History teaches that tensions and conflicts
are more likely when new powers emerge. This, too, may happen.
But they can be avoided if the world accepts the key principles
for a new global partnership spelled out in The New Asian
Hemisphere.
"In The New Asian Hemisphere,
Kishore Mahbubani has given us a very powerful account
of the world seen through Asian eyes, and has shown the
global relevance of that penetrating vision. The book is
both insightful and delightfully combative as well as
fun to read."
Amartya Sen Thomas
W. Lamont University Professor Harvard University
1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics
and author of The Argumentative Indian
"There is no more thoughtful observer
of Asia, the United States, and their interaction than Kishore Mahbubani.
Having written about Asia, then the United States he has
produced a book on their interaction that should be read
by anyone who hopes to or will shape US foreign policy
over the next decade. And it should be read by anyone in
Asia who hopes to understand or influence that
policy...The rise of Asia and all that follows it will
be the dominant story in history books written 300 years
from now with the Cold War and rise of Islam as
secondary stories."
Lawrence H Summers
Charles W. Eliot
University Professor of Harvard University
Kennedy School
More information
of this book.
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