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Professional

Publications

Books

MOVE: Where People are Going for a Better Future (Simon & Schuster, 2021) 

The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century (Simon & Schuster, 2019)

Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (Amazon, 2017)

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (Random House, 2016)

Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (TED Books, 2012)

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (Random House, 2011)

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (Random House, 2008)

Monographs, Book Chapters, Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Eine glaubhafte Führungsrolle. Von Aufwand und Ertrag der Demokratie.” in: Frank-Walter Steinmeier (ed) Zur Zukunft der Demokratie (Siedler, 2022)

“Globalization’s Future is Asian,” in: Henry Huiyao Wang and Alistair Michie (eds), Consensus or Conflict? China and Globalization in the 21st Century (Springer, 2021)

“Still the Man of the Future,” in: John Schroeter, ed. After Shock, Abundant World, 2020. 

“Der Aufstieg asiatischer Laender zu fuehrenden Wirtschaftsnationen,” in: Weiter: Denken. Ordnen. Gestalten. Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft (2019)

“Kann China ein gigantisches Deutschland werden?” in: China und Deutschland 5.0 (DeGruyer, 2019)

“Global Mobility Today,” in: Global Mobility Report, Henley & Partners (2019)

“Dubai,” in: Daniel Bell and Avner de-Shalit, eds. The Spirit of Cities (Vol. 2) (2015)

“The 50 Year Future for Singapore in Asia and the World,” (with Nicholas Fang) Singapore Institute of International Affairs (June 2015)

“Generative Cities as Progressive and Innovative Ecosystems,” in: Daniel Araya (ed.) Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

“The Future of Global Education,” in: Daniel Araya and Peter Marber (eds.) Higher Education in the Global Age (Routledge, 2014)

“Is (Political) Geography Destiny? The Case for New Human Geography,” in: Darryl G. Mudrock, Robert R. Tomes and Christopher K. Tucker (eds.) Human Geography: Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Challenges to Global Security (Washington: U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, 2014)

“Geotechnology and Global Change,” Global Policy, February 2014 (Vol. 5, Issue 1) (Guest editor)

“How Multi-Stakeholder is Global Policy?” Global Policy, September 2012 (Vol. 3, Issue 3)

“Democracy versus Efficiency: The Challenge of the 21^st Century,” in: Vladislav Inozemtsev and Piotr Dutkiewicz, Democracy versus Modernization (London: Routledge, 2012)

“Integrating, Not Integrated: A Scorecard of GCC Economic Integration,” (with Richard Shediac, Hatem Samman, and Taufiq Rahim) Booz & Co. Ideation Center Insight Paper, Summer 2011

“A New Geopolitics for a New Middle East,” in: Heiko Wimmen, ed. Rising Powers and the Middle East (Berlin: Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2010)

“Der neue geopolitische Marktplatz: Strategische Allianzen fuer das 21. Jahrhundert,” in: Michael Thoss and Christina Weiss (eds.) Das Ende der Gewissheiten: Reden ueber Europa (Munich: Diedrichs, 2009)

“Bollystan: India’s Diasporic Diplomacy,” in: India as a New Global Leader, Foreign Policy Centre, 2005

“America’s Interests at the United Nations,” (with Thomas Weston) Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, April 2005

Essays

“The Coming Entropy Of Our World Order,” Noema, May 7, 2024

“Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve,” Foreign Policy, January 20, 2024

“Climate driven migration is becoming inevitable as focus shifts to nations’ geographic fate,” Fortune, December 1, 2023

“No Water, No Workers, No Chips,” (with Michael Ferrari) Foreign Policy, August 4, 2023

“Henry Kissinger’s Lessons for the World Today,” TIME, May 26, 2023

“There’s a Global War for Young Talent. The Winners Will Shape the Future,” TIME, October 24, 2022

“What Comes After the Coming Climate Anarchy?” TIME, August 15, 2022

“Ist eine Weltordnung möglich?” Die ZEIT, August 15, 2022

“It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation,” (w/ Ravi Chidambaram) Harvard Business Review, August 1, 2022

“Settlement in Ukraine is Not Appeasement,” The National Interest, April 7, 2022

“The Brain Drain That’s Killing the American Economy,” TIME, January 21, 2022

“Invade Russia, Iran, and North Korea – with Connectivity,” Noema, January 20, 2022

“Great Protocol Politics,” (w/ Balaji Srinivasan) Foreign Policy, December 11, 2021

“Climate Change is Inevitable. Here’s How We Must Adapt.” TIME, November 19, 2021

“America’s Next Great Migrations are Driven by Climate Change,” (with Susan Hassol) Scientific American, October 14, 2021 

“A new global war for talent has begun. This is how employers can win.” LinkedIn, October 9, 2021

“Who Will Win the Global War for Talent?” Foreign Policy, 9 October 2021

“Afghanistan is only the latest in a long line of mass migrations to come,” The Times, October 8, 2021

“Migration will soon be the biggest climate challenge of our time,” Financial Times, October 3, 2021

“In the face of unprecedented challenges, humanity is on the move,” National Geographic, September 29, 2021

“The Pandemic Proves Only Technocrats Can Save Us,” Foreign Policy, June 24, 2021

“The New ‘End of History’,” The National Interest, March 6, 2021

“Islands of Immunity,” (with Spencer Wells) Foreign Policy, February 17, 2021

“America’s ‘deep state’ is not nearly deep enough,” Fast Company, February 10, 2021

“The next wave of globalization: Asia in the cockpit,” Nikkei Asia, January 13, 2021

“What’s Good for the World is Good for China — and America,” Noema, December 23, 2020

“Pillar or pawn,” Rest of World, December 11, 2020

“Has China Peaked Already?” Noema, October 13, 2020

“Here’s What Must Change to Keep Asia’s Rise Peaceful,” The National Interest, August 16, 2020

“All Roads Need Not Lead to Beijing,” Noema, July 13, 2020 

“Asia Is Where American Superpower Began. Is It Also Where It Ends?” World Post, June 3, 2019

“Viewing Asian flashpoints and disputes through a new lens,” The Straits Times, May 31, 2019

“The Rising Risks and Opportunities Confronting Global Agriculture,” (with Michael Ferrari) Knowledge @ Wharton, May 23, 2019

“From ‘War on Terror’ to ‘New Cold War’: Words in search of a strategy,” The Hill, May 14, 2019

“Can the East Save the West?” Project Syndicate, May 10, 2019

“Washington Is Dismissing China’s Belt and Road. That’s a Huge Strategic Mistake.” Politico, April 30, 2019

“The US could have a huge say in China’s future,” CNN, April 26, 2019

“Italy’s joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative highlights differences between Europe and the US on Asia policy,” (with Kishore Mahbubani), South China Morning Post, April 1, 2019

“Boeing Got Caught in the US-China Trade War. Who’s Next?” Barron’s, March 14, 2019

“Don’t let poll rancour way lay India’s rising global clout,” Times of India, February 11, 2019

“Corporate America has a China problem, and the solution is Asia,” LinkedIn, February 8, 2019

“America First, meet Asia First,” Quartz, February 6, 2019

“China Couldn’t Dominate Asia if It Wanted to,” Foreign Policy, February 3, 2019

“The rise of the American-Asian ‘Re-pat’,” Ozy, February 1, 2019

“Asia’s History Lessons for the World’s Future,” The Straits Times, January 6, 2019

“Avoiding World War III in Asia,” The National Interest, June 17, 2018

“Thucydides Trap or Tug-of-War?” The National Interest, August 17, 2018

“US Cities: By the People and By the Numbers,” MasterCard, April 2017

“Connected Cities, Productive Cities,” MasterCard, March 2017  

“America Needs a Corporate Foreign Policy,” Politico, January 25, 2017

“Watson Should Have Run for President,” Quartz, January 23, 2017

“The World Demands A New Map,” Emerging Markets Business, January 23, 2017

“Want to understand how Trump happened, study quantum physics,” Quartz, November 11, 2016

“Anyone who wants to be president needs to understand these 5 maps,” Business Insider, April 21, 2016

“The New World Order is Ruled by Global Corporations and Megacities, not Countries,” Co-Exist/Fast Company, April 20, 2016 

“From War to Tug-of-War: The Global Fight for Connectivity,” The National Interest, April 19, 2016

“A New Map for America,” The New York Times, April 15, 2016

“The U.S. Should Follow China and Spain’s Lead and Build More ‘Connectivity’ Infrastructure,” Forbes, April 11, 2016

“Use it or Lose It: China’s Grand Strategy,” Stratfor, April 9, 2016

“Rise of the Titans,” Foreign Policy, March/April 2016

“The New Arms Race: Connectivity and Competition,” Foreign Affairs, February 15, 2016

“A World Reimagined,” The American Interest, June 16, 2014

“Getting Leapfrogging Right: Adapting Tech Trends to Developing Nations,” (with Sara Agarwal) The Next Web, May 31, 2014

“The Independent Republic of the Supply Chain,” (with Ahmed el Hady) Quartz, March 19, 2013

“The Generative City,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Urban Solutions, February 2, 2013

“The Power of Moore’s Law in a World of Geotechnology,” (with Marc Goodman) The National Interest, January 2, 2013

“The Rise of Hybrid Governance,” Redesigning Government for New Times, McKinsey Center for Government,” October 1, 2012

“The new Silk Road is made of Iron – and Stretches from Scotland to Singapore,” Quartz, September 30, 2012

“Surge of the ‘Second World’,” The National Interest, April 25, 2012

“Technology Will Take on a Life of Its Own,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Foreign Policy, August 15, 2011

“Japan: Hybrid Civilization of the Future,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Newsweek Japan, May 14, 2011

“The Neo-Renaissance Man,” TIME, January 31, 2011

“When Cities Rule the World,” What Matters (McKinsey), February 1, 2011

“Beyond City Limits,” Foreign Policy, August 6, 2010

“Learning Asia the Asian Way,” Asia Policy, January 2010

“Europa 2030: A Postmodern Middle Ages,” Internationale Politik, Summer 2009

“The New Colonialists,” (with Michael Cohen and Maria Figueroa-Küpçü) Utne Reader, October 10, 2008

“Inter-Imperial Relations,” Internationale Politik, Fall 2008

“Here Comes the Second World,” Academia, April 30, 2008

“Waving Goodbye to Hegemony,” The New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2008

“The Regime Change We Need,” (with Lawrence Goo) The National Interest, November 10, 2006

“Springtime for Kurdistan,” TruthDig, August 30, 2006

“Getting India Right,” (with C. Raja Mohan) Policy Review, February 1, 2006

“The Sons of the Fathers,” Foreign Policy, October 15, 2009

“United They Fall: Why only Bill Clinton can save the U.N.” Harper’s, January 7, 2006

“Plane to Pakistan,” Prospect, September 24, 2005

“Weapons of Mass Seduction,” Foreign Policy, October 22, 2009

“Bollystan,” Another Generation, March 15, 2005

“The Metrosexual Superpower,” Foreign Policy, August 7, 2004

“The Counsel of Geopolitics: How to Avoid the Fate of Empires,” Current History, November 7, 2003

“The Axis of Democracy (Revisited),” In the National Interest, September 10, 2003

“Risky Business: Geopolitics and the Global Corporation,” (with Sven Behrendt) Strategy + Business, Fall 2003

“America in the Age of Geodiplomacy,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2003

“The Axis of Democracy,” In The National Interest, December 25, 2002

“America in the Age of Geodiplomacy,” OECD Highlights, Summer 2002

“Is Kenneth Waltz Still M.A.D. About Nukes?” (with Jeremy Goldberg) Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2000

“Preventing Conflict and Promoting Peace Through Partnership,” (with Jan-Philipp Goertz) Strategies for a Global Generation, September 2000

Reviews

“Is America ‘fated to lead’?” Financial Times, January 26, 2017

“‘Who Owns the Future?’ by Jaron Lanier” San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 2013

“Slumdogs, Millionaires,” The National, February 6, 2009 (Alex Perry, Falling off the Edge)

“The Rise of Non-Americanism,” The Washington Post, May 18, 2008 (Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World)

“Ganz unten,” Kulturaustausch, No. 2, 2008 (Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion)

“Terrorism as War,” Policy Review, October/November 2003 (Walter Laqueur, No End to War)

“The Softest Power?” Survival, Summer 2003 (Jedediah Purdy, Being America)

“Bollywood for the World,” United We Stand: Deepavali 2002, October 6, 2002, Association of Indians in America (AIA) (Bombay Dreams: The Musical, London) 

“Tragic Realism,” New Statesman, February 25, 2002 (Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics)

Commentary 

“Behind every successful man…” Esquire, December 2022

“Can Western Governments Learn from the New Asian Values?” Edelman, December 15, 2022

“Borders are holding the world’s eight billion people back,” Financial Times, November 11, 2022

“A ‘magic formula’ for the 4G leadership and beyond,” Straits Times, April 19, 2022

“Russia Joins the Asian Club,” Foreign Policy, March 29, 2022

“Britain needs immigrants if it is to survive the climate storm,” Financial Times, January 9, 2022

“Climate migration is here. The U.S. must invest accordingly,” Washington Post, November 17, 2021

“Hollywood Needs to Show Us Life Beyond Climate Disaster,” Foreign Policy, November 1, 2021

“South China Sea claims: Technocratic way to peace?” Straits Times, October 29, 2021

“For millennials and Gen-Z, the American Dream may require a move,” NBC THINK, October 14, 2021

“Migration will soon be the biggest climate challenge of our time,” Financial Times, October 3, 2021

“South China Sea: how Asian nations can find peace and profit together,” South China Morning Post, January 28, 2021

“Globalisierung, das sind wir!” Liberal, December 2020

“Trump’s election lies show U.S. democracy isn’t idiot-proof. The ‘deep state’ must fight back.” NBC Think, December 7, 2020

“The hard truth about climate change: The devil’s in the details,” (w/ Michael Ferrari) Fast Company, December 3, 2020

“Imagining Asia in 2050,” Straits Times, November 21, 2020

“Geoengineering is the only solution to climate calamities,” (w/ Michael Ferrari) WIRED, September 21, 2020

“Coronavirus cases are rising again. When will Wall Street wake up?” (w/ Karan Khemka) Fast Company, June 22, 2020

“How the coronavirus is forcing the shipping industry to make cybersecurity a priority,” (w/ Mikhail Zeldovich) South China Morning Post, June 18, 2020

“China nicht streicheln,” Die Zeit, June 3, 2020

“How Coronavirus Could Make People Move,” (w/ Kailash K. Prasad), Politico, May 13, 2020 

“Southeast Asia rides fourth wave of regional growth,” Financial Times, May 10, 2020

“Universities need a new social compact with society and these should be the priorities,” (w/ Karan Khemka) Times Higher Education, May 9, 2020

“Australia’s climate luck is moving north to Canada,” The Globe and Mail, May 2, 2020

“From pandemic diplomacy to a new global governance,” The Hill, April 26, 2020 

“Post-pandemic: Welcome to the multi-speed world of regional disparities,” Global Geneva, April 26, 2020

“The coronavirus butterfly effect: Six predictions for a new world order,” (w/ Karan Khemka) Fast Company, April 14, 2020

“Covid-19-Bekaempfung per Handy-App,” (w/ Ayesha Khanna) Neue Zuericher Zeitung, April 7, 2020

“Five things that won’t change in the post-coronavirus economy,” Quartz, March 30, 2020

“Covid-19 is Traveling Along the New Silk Road,” Wired, February 28, 2020

“Echoes of Suez 1956: Will China shove aside America?” The Hill, February 26, 2020

“Everyone has moved past the US-China trade war — except the US and China,” Quartz, December 16, 2019

“Asia Is Where American Superpower Began. Is It Also Where It Ends?” NOEMA, June 3, 2019

“Viewing Asia’s flashpoints and disputes through a different lens,” Straits Times, May 31, 2019

“The Rising Risks — and Opportunities — Confronting Global Agriculture,” (with Michael Ferrari) Knowledge @ Wharton, May 23, 2019

“From ‘War on Terror’ to ‘New Cold War’: Words in Search of a Strategy,” The Hill, May 14, 2019

“Can the East save the West?” Project Syndicate, May 10, 2019

“Washington Is Dismissing China’s Belt and Road. That’s a Huge Strategic Mistake.” Politico, April 30, 2019

“The US could have a huge say in China’s future,” CNN, April 26, 2019 

“Italy joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative highlights different approaches of Europe and the US on Asia policy,” South China Morning Post, April 1, 2019

“Boeing got caught in the US-China trade war. Who’s next?” Barron’s, March 14, 2019

“Don’t let poll rancor way India’s rising global clout,” Times of India, February 11, 2019 

“Why do we still use the term Middle East when West Asia is more relevant to Arab nations?” The National, February 7, 2019

“Australia’s Asianizing Society,” Australian Financial Review, February 6, 2019

“Why Americans are flocking to Asia,” CNN, February 6, 2019

“We Are All Asians Now,” Thrive Global, January 23, 2019

“Crazy and rich…but also generous,” Ozy, September 7, 2018

“The Chinese art of substitution,” Axios, November 8, 2018

“These 10 Asian cities are the most prepared for the future,” (with Robert Muggah) World Economic Forum, September 5, 2018 

“The World Economy’s Urban Future,” Project Syndicate, August 10, 2018

“South China Sea disputes must be resolved through arbitration that seeks mutual benefit,” South China Morning Post, 23 July 2018 

“What the 4G leaders can focus on,” The Straits Times, July 7, 2018

“The real winners from the Trump-Kim summit will be North Korea’s neighbors,” Quartz, June 14, 2018

“Put the ‘human’ back in human capital,” (with Ravi Chidambaram) Straits Times, May 15, 2018

“Facebook can still save American democracy from itself,” Fast Company, April 30, 2018

“There’s a new Secretary of State. Who Cares?” Politico, March 13, 2018

“Trump can’t stop the world from turning away from American leadership,” Quartz, January 31, 2018

“Get Over Yourself, America,” Politico, January 19, 2018 

“Digital demokratisch,” Die Zeit, November 2, 2017

“Catalans and Kurds are at the Forefront of True Local Democracy,” HuffPost, September 25, 2017

“Germany and France thwarted far right populism–why did the US and UK fall to them?” Quartz, September 25, 2017

“Die Ohnmacht der Experten,” Handelsblatt, September 4, 2017

“Asians are building their own world order,” CNN, August 8, 2017

“The solution to US politics’ Facebook problem is Facebook,” Quartz, July 3, 2017 

“Asian grouping offers master class on economic integration,” Gulf News, June 2, 2017

“Is the world really as volatile as ever?” Quartz, June 1, 2017 

“Macron and Merkel can make Europe great again,” CNN, May 31, 2017

“Global Companies, Local Rules,” Quartz, April 28, 2017 

“Connectivity, Not Primacy, is the Way of the World,” Stratfor, March 8, 2017

“Engagement is better than isolation in Sino-US relations under Trump,” Global Times, March 2, 2017 

“Why Raising Your Kids Abroad Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Them,” AFAR, March/April 2017

“Trade Grows – Without the U.S.” Politico, February 23, 2017

“Recovering the Promise of Technocracy,” Project Syndicate, February 3, 2017

“Forget Trump’s ‘First 100 Days’ – Think About the Next Generation,” Quartz, January 27, 2017  

“To beat populism, blend democracy and technocracy, S’pore style,” Straits Times, January 21, 2017

“Five Ways the American Government is Much Worse than Other Countries,” Medium, January 18, 2017

“There are better governments than America’s — It’s time to learn from them,” LinkedIn, January 14, 2017

“Is Modi’s Technocracy India’s Future?” Open, January 12, 2017

“Seven presidents are better than one: Why the Oval Office needs a round table,” Quartz, January 10, 2017

“Asia Turns to Technocrats for Answers,” South China Morning Post, January 9, 2017

“Sick of American Democracy? The U.S. Can Learn a Lot from These Countries,” HuffPost, January 9, 2017

“In 2017, Can Data Deliver Us a Better Democracy?” 52 Insights, January 2, 2017

“Five Radical Solutions to Fix Our Busted Government,” TIME, December 2, 2016

“Want to Understand How Trump Happened? Study Quantum Physics,” Quartz, November 11, 2016

“The Four Most Important Foreign Policy Strategies for the Next President,” TIME, September 21, 2016

“After 15 years of war on terror, are we any safer?” (with Robert Muggah) World Economic Forum, September 9, 2016

“Why Obama, on His Last Asia Trip, Needs to Save the TPP,” Politico, September 1, 2016

“London Should Secede from the United Kingdom,” Foreign Policy, June 28, 2016

“Brexit was not the will of the people, but the will of the provinces,” Quartz, June 27, 2016

“A Brexit Cancels Out the Real Benefit of Devolution,” RANE, June 8, 2016 

“With Connectivity Comes Growth,” Live Mint, May 30, 2016

“16 Words and Phrases Describing Humanity’s Future,” Tech Insider, May 24, 2016

“These Maps Show How Vast New Infrastructure is Bringing the World Together,” HuffPost, April 18, 2016

“5 Maps That Show Why Cities Rule the World,” Tech Insider, April 18, 2016

“Climate Change is Forcing a New Manifest Destiny,” TIME, April 18, 2016

“The world through the lens of Chinese supply chains,” Straits Times, April 13, 2016

“What Trump Gets Wrong About U.S. Neighbors,” CNN, April 7, 2016

“In Davos, World Elites See Signs of Growth and Resilience in Turbulent Markets,” HuffPost, January 19, 2016

“Russia on the Cyber Silk Road,” Digital-Russia.com, December 18, 2016

“ISIS is everywhere: Is it time for a global passport?” CNN, December 11, 2015

“Global poverty: This is how to REALLY reduce it,” CNN, October 6, 2015

“From Grand Strategy to Brand Strategy,” BuzzFeed, September 15, 2015

“How small states prepare for cyber-war,” CNN, September 2, 2015

“Tehran’s ‘Just do it’ generation makes up for lost time,” CNN, July 7, 2015

“A sunny island set in the Asian hinterland,” Straits Times, June 29, 2015

“Bright ideas to seize the urban moment,” Straits Times, June 11, 2015

“Long Live Lee Kuan Yew’s Lion City,” Foreign Policy, March 22, 2015

“Dismantling Empires through Devolution,” Atlantic, September 26, 2014

“Disciplining the Sharing Economy,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Project Syndicate, September 25, 2014

“China’s investment in infrastructure is exactly what made Alibaba’s IPO possible,” (with JT Singh) Quartz, September 25, 2014

“Smart nation, sharing city,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Straits Times, September 6, 2014

“New BRICS Bank a Building Block of Alternative World Order,” World Post, July 18, 2014

“Permeable Lines on the Grand Trunk Road,” The New York Times, July 6, 2014

“Getting Leapfrogging Right,” (with Sara Agarwal) Stanford Social Innovation Review, June 27, 2014

“Iran nuclear sanctions: Why the world still does business with Tehran,” CNN, June 10, 2014

“Time for a post-dynastic democracy,” Mint India, May 16, 2014

“Time for the Next Tier of ASEAN Cities to Stand Up,” (with Mohit Mehrotra) Business Times, May 15, 2014

“National Service for the 21^st Century,” The Straits Times, April 25, 2014

“How Strategic is Sri Lanka?” CNN, April 9, 2014

“Against Growth Market Pessimism,” HuffPost, January 21, 2014 

“Saudi Arabia’s Commercial Class Looks to Future,” Al-Monitor, 23 December 2013

“The End of the Nation-State?” The New York Times, October 14, 2013

“Supply Chain Global Governance,” The Economist, September 15, 2013

“Middle East Reconfigured: Turkey vs. Iran vs. Saudi Arabia,” (with Soner Cagaptay) CNN, September 13, 2013

“ASEAN is key to ‘Asian century’,” CNN, August 15, 2013

“Seizing the Singapore Dream,” The Straits Times, August 6, 2013

“Where will you live in 2050?” (with Greg Lindsay) Reuters, August 6, 2013

“Confessions of a Tiger Dad,” HuffPost, July 31, 2013

“Sophisticated Singapore,” The Straits Times, July 3, 2013

“BRICS, VISTA, BROOMS,” Quartz, June 23, 2013

“Chinese Cities Show up on the Global Radar,” (with JT Singh) China Daily, June 6, 2013

“The Human City,” Project Syndicate, May 23, 2013

“Nations are no longer driving globalization—cities are,” (with Michele Acuto) Quartz, May 3, 2013

“Around the World, Mayors Take Charge,” (with Michele Acuto) Atlantic, April 26, 2013 

“Hybrid Humans,” Project Syndicate, April 24, 2013

“Can China Become a Melting Pot?” CNN, April 16, 2013

“Inter-city relations driving global ties,” Straits Times, April 4, 2013

“Cities, Not Countries, Will Once Again be Key to World Order,” The National (UAE), March 25, 2013

“Rise of the Info-States,” Global Brief, March 5, 2013

“Is Brazil ready to  take sporting center stage?” CNN, March 5, 2013

“Singapore’s best-kept secrets: Its virtues,” Straits Times, February 23, 2013

“Startup Sovereigns,” (with Sawsan Gad) Foreign Policy, February 8, 2013

“Investors, beware: It’s a bumpy ride on the new Burma Road,” Quartz, January 31, 2013

“From Burma to Myanmar: Land of rising expectations,” CNN, January 3, 2013

“Does Norway Hold the Key to Solving South China Sea Dispute?” (with John Gilman) CNN, November 13, 2012 

“Why Syria’s Fragmentation is Turkey’s Opportunity,” (with Soner Cagaptay) The Atlantic, October 24, 2012

“So long, Information Age. Hello, Hybrid Age,” WIRED UK, October 19, 2012

“Could it finally be springtime for Nigeria?” CNN, October 10, 2012 

“Singapore: The Hyphen Connecting the World to Asia,” Straits Times, September 29, 2012

“The New World,” (with Frank Jacobs) The New York Times, September 23, 2012

“Typhoon Tourism: One Week in North Korea,” CNN, September 10, 2012

“Jobs of the Future,” (with Aaron Smith) Foreign Policy, August 13, 2012

“’One Mega-City, Many Systems’: The Evolution of Hong Kong,” (with Thomas Sevcik) Bloomberg, June 21, 2012

“It’s the Technology, Stupid,” CNN, June 21, 2012

“Way Beyond Facebook: Welcome to the Hybrid Age,” Esquire, June 14, 2012

“Welcome to the Hybrid Age,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Slate, June 13, 2012

“How Technology Promotes World Peace,” (with Ayesha Khanna) The Atlantic, June 12, 2012

“Which Nation Has the Best ‘Technik’?” (with Ayesha Khanna) Harvard Business Review, June 12, 2012

“Is Your Job Robot-Proof?” (with Ayesha Khanna) Forbes, June 7, 2012

“What is it about Singapore?” Straits Times, May 26, 2012

“Why Eduardo Saverin Has Company in Singapore,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Bloomberg, May 24, 2012

“BRICS may find common ground, but India has to stand up for itself,” Financial Times, March 27, 2012

“Could Mayors Rule the World?” LSE IDEAS Blog, January 26, 2012

“The Persistent Myths of Soft Power,” LSE IDEAS Blog, January 14, 2012

“Enroll the World in For-Profit Universities,” (with Karan Khemka) Harvard Business Review, January – February 2012

“Stop Fretting About Beijing as a Global Policeman,” (with Jonas Parello-Plesner), Financial Times, December 28, 2011

“Needed: An Economic Performance Index for Cities,” (with Thomas Sevcik) Atlantic Cities, November 16, 2011

“Look South, Not East,” Foreign Policy, November 11, 2011

“Big ideas from small places,” (with David Skilling) CNN, November 11, 2011

“Global masses demand accountability,” CNN, October 12, 2011

“From ‘War on Terror’ to ‘New Silk Road’,” CNN, October 7, 2011

“Mayor of the World: How Bloomberg Flexes New York’s Diplomatic Muscle” (with Mahanth Joishy) Bloomberg, September 21, 2011

“Why China Wants a G-3 World,” (with Mark  Leonard) International Herald Tribune, September 7, 2011

“America’s Non-Grand Strategy,” The Atlantic , September 5, 2011

“Stakeholders of goodwill: neither the “salad bowl” nor the ‘melting pot’,” (with Aaron Maniam) openDemocracy, August 30, 2011

“U.S. Foreign Intervention: Changing of the Guard?” NPR Marketplace, August 26, 2011

“Northern Star,” (with Ayesha Khanna) TIME, June 23, 2011

“LeeKuanYew-istan Forever,” Foreign Policy, May 24, 2011

“Cut Military Aid Now,” New York Times, May 10, 2011

“Long Bus, Short Wait,” (with Ayesha Khanna) TIME, May 2, 2011 

“Bin Laden Assassinated, Not Martyred,” CNN, May 2, 2011

“The Coming Arab Renaissance,” Foreign Policy, April 20, 2011

“Europe and the World: The External Dimension,” Action Plan for Europe 2020, Lisbon Council, 2011

“A New New World Order,” Vision (Dubai), Spring 2011

“Egypt, Libya and the Folly of the BRICs,” Harvard Business Review Online, February 22, 2011

“Insistent, Not Imperial,” HuffPost, February 14, 2011

“A long, slow march,” The Daily, February 12, 2011

“Moment of truth for Egypt’s military,” CNN, February 11, 2011

“Getting on the Right Side of History,” Foreign Policy, February 3, 2011

“Egypt and the End of Excuses for the U.S.” The Daily Beast, February 1, 2011

“Don’t Hate on Davos,” Foreign Policy, January 28, 2011

“Le Forum de Davos: un nouvel outil de diplomatie mondiale,” (with Felix Marquardt) Le Figaro, January 28, 2011 

“Davos: Congress of the New Middle Ages,” The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2011

“Long Live Wiki-Diplomacy!” CNN, January 20, 2011

“Breaking Up Is Good to Do,” Foreign Policy, January 13, 2011

“Obama’s Foreign Policy is Unreliable,” The Daily Beast, January 11, 2011

“CEOs as Statesmen? Author Offers New Plan on ‘How To Run The World’” CNBC, January 6, 2011

“America Needs a Diplomatic-Industrial Complex,” HuffPost, January 3, 2011

“Future Shock? Welcome to the New Middle Ages,” Financial Times, December 28, 2010

“A Cup of Plenty?” (with Karim Makdisi) ForeignPolicy.com, December 22, 2010

“Cyber-teeth bared,” (with Ian Bremmer), The New York Times, December 22, 2010

“A Mineral Fund for Afghanistan,” (with Christopher Tucker) Foreign Policy, December 20, 2010

“Richard Holbrooke’s Game-Changing Diplomacy,” HuffPost, December 15, 2010

“How’s That New World Order Working Out?” Foreign Policy, November 28, 2010

“It’s Not a Matter of Aid,” The New York Times, August 23, 2010

“Central Asia’s New Silk Roads,” The New York Times, August 12, 2010

“From London to Mongolia… In an Ambulance,” The Washington Note, August 3, 2010

“Corporate Citizenship: The Next Decade,” (with Maria Figueroa-Kupcu) IJ Partners Barometer, April 2010

“Listen to the Arabs,” The New York Times, March 25, 2010

“Remapping the World,” TIME, March 11, 2010

“Fly American, Unless You Know Better: Geopolitical Humor for the Oscars,” Washington Note, March 6, 2010

“The Taliban Are Still Here to Stay,” (with Melissa Payson) The Daily Beast, February 15, 2010

“Vorbild Europaeische Union,” The European, October 1, 2009

“The Spin Cycle of Summitry,” The Washington Note, September 21, 2009

“The Pakistani Rumor Mill,” Foreign Policy, August 16, 2009

“Where the Real Fight Is,” (with Michael Cohen) Foreign Policy, July 16, 2009

“Could Iran Crisis Promote Mideast Peace?” CNN, June 17, 2009

“Army of One? How about a Swat Team?” Foreign Policy, June 12, 2009

“How Pakistan Can Fix Itself,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Foreign Policy, May 6, 2009

“Pakistan’s Nuclear Scenarios, U.S. Solutions,” The New York Times, May 5, 2009

“The Government of Pakistan Needs to Step Up,” The Daily Beast, April 24, 2009

“We Should Get Rid of the Term ‘Muslim World’,” The Washington Post, April 19, 2009

“The World in Recession,” Al Majalla, April 17, 2009

“South Asia’s Taliban Problem,” The New York Times, April 14, 2009

“What Turkey Can Teach Us,” Slate, April 14, 2009

“Meeting Basic Needs Could Fight Islamic Extremism,” Newsweek, March 2, 2009

“The Road to Kabul Runs Through Beijing (and Tehran),” Foreign Policy, February 6, 2009

“The Taliban Problem Crosses Borders,” New York Times, January 26, 2009

“An Agenda for Obama’s CTO,” (with Ayesha Khanna) Bloomberg, January 12, 2009

“Don’t squander worldwide hope for America,” (with Keith Reinhardt) Athens Banner-Herald, January 8, 2009

“Neo-Medieval Times,” GOOD, January-February 2009

“Assessing Blame for Mumbai Attacks,” Newsweek, November 26, 2008

“World to America: Who cares?” Forbes, September 26, 2008

“These are the new middle ages, not a new order,” The Guardian, September 11, 2008

“Das sanfte Imperium,” Die Zeit, September 11, 2008

“The Globalization of Steak,” Esquire, August 26, 2008

“Die naechste Welt,” Die Zeit, July 3, 2008

“Europe’s Century,” (with Alpo Rusi) The Guardian, June 16, 2008

“Stop Looking for ‘Moderate’ Shiites and Address Interests,” World Politics Review, May 30, 2008

“On the Road to Disaster in India,” World Politics Review, February 26, 2008

“Life After Bush,” The New Statesman, January 7, 2008

“Peshawar Politics,” GOOD magazine, July 31, 2007

“Coalition Unwilling,” (with Khalil Matar) The New Republic, March 25, 2007 

“The New Global Arabism,” The Washington Post, June 9, 2006  

“Push for Reform, not Chaos, at the UN,” The Center for American Progress, June 20, 2005

“Putting the ‘Global’ Into ‘Global Governance’,” Outreach, April 21, 2005

“2005: Make or Break Year for MDG Efforts,” (with Richard Samans) International Development

“U.S. Courts Impact Others,” (with Fuad Rana) The Miami Herald, March 31, 2005

“Test of a good neighbour,” Indian Express, March 16, 2004 

“One People, Two Countries,” India Abroad, March 4, 2005

“Flight of the Dove,” India Today (International edition), February 7, 2005

“Taking the U.N. Seriously,” (with Thomas Weston) The Washington Times, December 1, 2004

“Bollystan – The Global India,” The Globalist, December 3, 2004

“Time for new coalitions,” Indian Express, November 5, 2004

“The essence of the Nobel Prize must be restored,” Financial Times, October 3, 2004

“Von der Gemeinschaft zur Weltmacht,” www.atlantic-online.de, September 16, 2004

Democracy 101: Lessons from India,” India Abroad, May 28, 2004

“U.S. Could Learn From EU’s Old World Charm in Foreign Policy,” The Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2004

“Democracy vs Development?” Outlook India, April 29, 2004

“Political will – and Political Won’t,” The Globalist , April 22, 2004

“The Real ‘New Europe’,” www.censa.net, April 1, 2004

“Bats, Balls, and Bombs: Cricket and peace in South Asia,” (with Fuad Rana) Slate.com, March 20, 2004

“India’s Choice: Super-power versus Super-ego,” India Abroad, February 20, 2004

“The United States is missing its best chance to ‘de-Finlandize’ Lebanon,” Daily Star (Beirut), January 27, 2004

“Road Map’s success could return Lebanon to its former glory,” Daily Star (Beirut) December 30, 2003 

“Iraq’s reconstruction can offer Lebanon significant opportunities,” Daily Star (Beirut), December 27, 2003

“Second Generation Diplomacy,” (with Jeremy Goldberg) The Washington Times, December 11, 2003

“One More Seat at the Table,” The New York Times, December 6, 2003

“America’s Interdependence Day,” openDemocracy, September 16, 2003

“Imperial Diplomacy,” www.censa.net, August 13, 2003

“The Glass Screening,” TENNIS Server, January 2003

“Neither Small Nor Safe: The World After Yesterday,” September 12, 2001

“Amazon.kampf,” Correspondence, Winter 1999/2000

“European Identity: A Non-European Perspective,” The New Federalist, Spring 1995· Daily articles appearing in The Earth Times March 7-13, 1995 (United Nations World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Travel

“Notes from the Overground,” EGO Magazine, January 1, 2006 (Russia) 

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Revolution,” EGO Magazine, November 16, 2005 (Ukraine)

“Turk Stops: From Europe to Asia Across Anatolia,” EGO Magazine, October 29, 2005 (Turkey)

“Going Home to Lahore, and a World Left Behind,” The New York Times, April 3, 2005 (Pakistan)

“War Tourism Without the War,” Another Generation, June-August 2004 (Lebanon)

“Moonlight Traveler,” Another Generation, March-May 2004 (Cambodia)

“Hanoi’s Hippest,” Another Generation, March-May 2004 (Vietnam)

Lifestyle

“Davos, anyone?” Another Generation, April/May 2005

“Finally, a name for ourselves!” EGO magazine, March 16, 2005

“Ash Meets Dave,” Another Generation

“Banging on,” Another Generation, January-March 2005 

“The Youngest MP in Indian History,” Another Generation, June-August 2004

“Saira: The Face of Another Generation,” Another Generation, June-August 2004

Letters

“Lethal Weapons,” Economist, November 7, 1998

“Compare and Contrast,” Economist, May 27, 1995

“Reawakening,” TIME, February 27, 1995