Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

Can the countries of the world join together to create the next golden age? Our guest this hour thinks so. We’ll talk to Parag Khanna, director of the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation and author of the new book “How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance” (Random House, 2011). He speaks to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth this evening.

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Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

We often hear of the divide between the superpowers and the developing world, but what about the countries that occupy that divide – countries like Brazil, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kazakhstan – and the power they wield? We’ll talk this hour with Parag Khanna, author of the new book “The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order” (Random House, 2008).

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Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

We often hear of the divide between the superpowers and the developing world, but what about the countries that occupy that divide – countries like Brazil, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kazakhstan – and the power they wield? We’ll talk this hour with Parag Khanna, author of the new book “The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order” (Random House, 2008).

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