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Connectography, mapping the future of global civilization, Parag Khanna

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Parag Khanna

mapping the future of global civilization

In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets—a race China is now winning, having launched a wave of infrastructure investments to unite Eurasia around its new Silk Roads. The United States can only regain ground by fusing with its neighbors into a super-continental North American Union of shared resources and prosperity

Part One: Connectivity As Destiny -- Chapter 1: From Borders To Bridges -- Chapter 2: New Maps For A New World -- Part Two: Devolution As Destiny -- Chapter 3: The Great Devolution -- Chapter 4: From Devolution To Aggregation -- Chapter 5: The New Manifest Destiny -- Part Three: Competitive Connectivity -- Chapter 6: World War III--Or Tug-Of-War? -- Chapter 7: The Great Supply Chain War -- Chapter 8: Infrastructure Alliances -- Chapter 9: The New Iron Age -- Chapter 10: Hopscotch Across The Oceans -- Part Four: From Nations To Nodes -- Chapter 11: If You Build It, They Will Come -- Chapter 12: Getting On The Map -- Chapter 13: Supply Chains As Salvation -- Part Five: Toward A Global Society -- Chapter 14: Cyber Civilization And Its Discontents -- Chapter 15: The Great Dilution -- Chapter 16: When Nature Has Its Say, Get Out Of The Way