Ep. 445: Parag Khanna Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Parag Khanna, an international relations expert, a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He is also the Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a geostrategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum.
The topic is his book Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Supply chains
- Connectivity
- Cities vs. State
- Chinese infrastructure growth
- Trade
- Trust among China's neighbors
- Territory borders
- Globalization
- Winners and losers in the 21st century
- The idea of "not in my backyard"
- Growth of Dubai
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.0 | My guest today is Parag Khanna. |
| 0:36.1 | He's an international relations expert, best-selling author. |
| 0:39.8 | He's a contributor to CNN. |
| 0:42.0 | He's also a senior research fellow in the Center on Asia and Globalization at the |
| 0:46.4 | Li Kuan Yu School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. |
| 0:52.0 | Singapore, one of my favorite places to visit. |
| 0:55.1 | I always enjoy going to Singapore. |
| 0:58.1 | His new book that recently came across my desk. |
| 1:01.8 | Connectography. |
| 1:03.2 | Mapping the future of global civilization. |
| 1:06.5 | This is not light reading, but it's really great reading. |
| 1:11.6 | If you have any curiosity for our connected geography in 2016, how it all unfolds, |
| 1:22.7 | Parag has really done the heavy lifting research. |
| 1:27.3 | And as a guy who once was a political science major, who studied international relations |
| 1:32.5 | in grad school, I really appreciate how far he has gone with his research, with his travel, |
| 1:40.0 | to put together a story that really explains. |
| 1:44.9 | The world is a really complicated place these days. |
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