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Why Asia is the center of the world again

"Asians don’t think of themselves as Asian, but as the new Silk Roads re-emerge and propel Asia to the center of the world economy, Asians are rediscovering their greatness and forging a new Asian identity for the 21st century."

Source: www.youtube.com

When discussing global economic growth, it is impossible not to mention Asia. Parag Khanna is the author of the book, The Future is Asian, and in this TED talk he highlights how Asia is growing.  More importantly, he looks at how discrete Asian cultures are becoming more intermixed as the economic infrastructure of Asia becomes increasingly interconnected (a summary article is titled, We are all Asians Now).  His 2009 TED talk, Mapping the Future of Countries, about border conflicts, is an APHG classic.       

 

GeoEd Tags: regions, political, globalization, culture, economic, TED, video.

Scoop.it Tags: regions, political, globalization, culture, economic, TED, video.

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India watches anxiously as Chinese influence grows

A $46bn economic corridor through disputed territories in Kashmir is causing most concern

Source: www.ft.com

The Indian government doesn’t want to seem threatened by the fact that China is paying for better transportation infrastructure that is essentially in their backyard.  India’s neighbors are excited for the potential economic growth that this can bring, but weary of China’s added clout and power throughout Asia.  As Parag Khanna argues is his new book Connectography, infrastructure and economic linkages will become increasingly more important to geopolitics and global economics; within that lens, China is certainly making a power move here. 

 

Tags: regions, transportation, economic.

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These Maps Show How Vast New Infrastructure Is Bringing the World Together

“If you want to understand the world of tomorrow, why not just look at a good map? For my (Parag Khanna) new book, Connectography, I researched every single significant cross-border infrastructure project linking countries together on every continent. I worked with the world’s leading cartography labs to literally map out what the future actually — physically — will look like.

It turns out that what most defines the emerging world is not fragmentation of countries but integration within regions. The same world that appears to be falling apart is actually coming together in much more concrete ways than today’s political maps suggest. Major world regions are forging dense infrastructural connectivity and reorienting their relations around supply chains rather than borders.”

 

Tags: regions, map.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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London Should Secede From the United Kingdom

Beyond the stunning act that has become Britain’s vote to leave the European Union lies a deeper message: Democracy is not destiny, but devolution. Ceaseless entropy — the second law of thermodynamics — applies to politics as well. The more countries democratize, the more local populations seek greater self-rule.

Source: foreignpolicy.com

In his book Connectography by Parag Khanna, he argues that connectivity and networks are more important today.  Using those ideas, Khanna discusses London’s options after the recent Brexit vote in this op-ed.      

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Cities are the New Nations

“Political geography is not determinant anymore, because cities are more important.”

Source: www.citylab.com

Controlling borders and territory were the main factors in geopolitics for centuries.  In his book Connectography by Parag Khanna, he argues that connectivity and networks are more important today.  The world’s most connected cities act in ways that transcend political boundaries.      

 

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Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures

“Cities are mankind’s most enduring and stable mode of social organization, outlasting all empires and nations over which they have presided. Today cities have become the world’s dominant demographic and economic clusters.”

Source: qz.com

This map is a sneak peek preview from the new book Connectography by Parag Khanna.  This main point of the book and article is that economic and social connectivity is the new driving force is of geopolitics, not just global economics.  Supply chains matter more than borders and the largest cities are the controlling nodes of those supply chains.  

 

Tags: political, globalization, urban, economic.

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2021 APHG Professional Development Night

Parag Khanna’s talk at the 2021 APHG reading was excellent. He was scheduled to be our keynote speaker at our Professional Development Night and he delivered.  As a professional development experience, it was one of the best I’ve ever participated in at any of the 16 readings I’ve attended (FYI: this is the 21st reading in APHG history). The talk was a compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades, ushering in an era of radical change. This is a preview of some content from his upcoming book, Move: The Forces Uprooting Us. We have recorded the Zoom version of the talk, and Parag was gracious enough to give us all his Google Slides presentation from his presentation. We also have the slides as a PDF (added below).

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He also created just for us, a special set of resources to align issues in his upcoming book Move: The Forces Uprooting Us with the APHG CED.   All these resources are archived in this Google Drive folder.  

EXTRA BONUS!!: By a stroke of good luck we were able to recover the MP4 of the 2020 APHG Professional Development Night. Dr. Lee Schwartz, has the most amazing title of all time in my opinion; he is THE GEOGRAPHER of the United States Department of State. In the State Department, he is in charge of the Office of Geography and Global Issues. IN 2020, he delivered a great lecture last year focused on his project to create the website, the World-Wide Human Geography Data. You can see the video of the Zoom talk for APHG teachers here.

Anyone who wants to be president needs to understand these 5 maps

Parag Khanna argues that these five maps are critical to understand the world we live in.

 

Maps shape how we see the world.  But most of the maps hanging on our walls are dangerously incomplete because they emphasize political borders rather than functional connections.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

These 5 maps in this article are a sneak peek preview from the new book Connectography by Parag Khanna.  These maps all highlight interactions across political borders which is Khanna’s big thesis.  For example, the map above emphasizes political, economic, and environmental linkages of NAFTA and minimizes the national divisions.    

 

Tags: regions, North America, map, map archive.

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A New Map for America

The 50-state model is holding the country back. It needs a new system, built around urban corridors.

Source: www.nytimes.com

This is a great article to get students thinking about the spatial network of cities, not just the internal structure of particular cities based on some models. In this article, Parag Khanna argues that the United States is stuck in “an antiquated political structure of 50 distinct states” that isn’t aligned with growing urban regions that shape our internal and external economic linkages. He proposed that our infrastruture should strengthen these networks that cut across state boundaries more so than it currently does. “Federal policy should refocus on help these nascent [urban] archipelagos prosper, and helping other emerge…collectively forming a lattice of productive metro-regions efficently through better highways, railways, and fiber-optic cables: a United City-States of America.” 

 

Questions to Ponder: What political obstacles would this proposal receive?  Demographically, who would support/oppose this type of restructuring?  How would this impact the economic geographies of the United States? 

 

Tags: op-ed, regions, urban, transportation, economic, planning.

 

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The End of the Nation-State?

With rapid urbanization under way, cities want to call their own shots. Increasingly, they can.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

This article could just as easily been titled, “The rise of the modern city-state.”  Parag Khanna (known for his TED talk, Mapping the Future of Countries) argues in this article that governance is happening increasingly at the city scale.  “In the face of rapid urbanization, every city, state or province wants to call its own shots. And they can, as nations depend on their largest cities more than the reverse.”

Questions to Ponder: Is this devolution?  How so?  How does this make us rethink political power and ‘the state?’  How might this shift reshape the world?  How might this concept relate to the the term primate cities?

Tags: political, urban politics, urban.

See on www.nytimes.com

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