Lunch Seminar: Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

Date: 

Friday, March 31, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School

Speaker: Parag Khanna, Geo-Strategist, best selling author & Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore.

Parag KhannaParag Khanna will present his book, "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization". In this book Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity more than borders. His journeys take us from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Panama City to Dubai, and the Arctic Circle to the South China Sea—all to show how 21st century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and Internet cables, advanced technologies and market access.