Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Society and Social Sciences
  3. Politics

Read and listen for free for 30 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.0(3)

The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century

“Foreign policy whiz kid” (The New York Times Book Review) Parag Khanna reveals “a dazzling distillation of the history of the world from an Asian perspective…thorough and clear, offering abundant food for thought” (Kirkus Reviews).

The “Asian Century” is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational order spanning Saudi Arabia to Japan, Russia to Australia, Turkey to Indonesia that together represent 40 percent of global GDP. Asia is rapidly returning to the centuries-old patterns of commerce, conflict, and cultural exchange that thrived long before European colonialism and American dominance. Asians will determine their own future—and as they collectively assert their interests around the world, they will determine ours as well.

In “an authoritative book that may well become a standard” (Financial Times), Parag Khanna explains how Asia’s complexity has led to common misdiagnoses: Western thinking on Asia conflates the entire region with China, predicts imminent World War III around every corner, and regularly forecasts debt-driven collapse for the region’s major economies. But in reality, the region is experiencing a confident new wave of growth led by younger societies from India to the Philippines, nationalist leaders have put aside territorial disputes in favor of integration, and today’s infrastructure investments are the platform for the next generation of digital innovation.

If the nineteenth century featured the Europeanization of the world, and the twentieth century its Americanization, then the twenty-first century is the time of Asianization. From investment portfolios and trade wars to Hollywood movies and university admissions, no aspect of life is immune from Asianization. “The Future Is Asian offers a valuable and thoroughly researched analysis of one course that the region may take” (The Wall Street Journal).


Author:

  • Parag Khanna

Narrator:

  • Nezar Alderazi

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 14 h 21 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Politics

More by Parag Khanna

Skip the list
  1. Move : Where People Are Going for a Better Future

    Parag Khanna

    book
  2. Move : The Forces Uprooting Us

    Parag Khanna

    audiobook
  3. The Future Is Asian

    Parag Khanna

    book
  4. Connectography

    Parag Khanna

    audiobook

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. The Long Hangover : Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past

    Shaun Walker

    audiobook
  2. Strategic Vision : America and the Crisis of Global Power

    Zbigniew Brzezinski

    audiobook
  3. Poor Economics : A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

    Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo

    audiobook
  4. The Vory

    Mark Galeotti

    audiobook
  5. Future War and the Defence of Europe

    John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French

    audiobook
  6. Future Peace

    Robert H. Latiff

    audiobook
  7. The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

    Jacob Helberg

    audiobookbook
  8. Art & Crime : The fight against looters, forgers, and fraudsters in the high-stakes art world

    Stefan Koldehoff, Tobias Timm

    audiobook
  9. Empire of Democracy : The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971–2017

    Simon Reid-Henry

    audiobook
  10. Career Diplomacy

    Harry W. Kopp, John K. Naland

    audiobook
  11. Heavy Metal : The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers

    Michael Fabey

    audiobook
  12. Adaptation Under Fire

    Davivd Barno, Nora Bensahel

    audiobook

  • 5 books

    Parag Khanna

    Parag Khanna is the founder and CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial predictive location analytics platform. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), preceded by The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019), as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and coauthor of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York, and Germany, he has traveled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5