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Article: Touring the horizon.(books, arts & manners)(Book review)
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- National Review
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- June 2, 2008
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The Second World:
Empires and Influence in the New
Global Order, by Parag Khanna
(Random House, 496 pp., $29)
PARAG KHANNA's The Second World is a great book that deserves wide reading but not wide debate. Some incorrectly position Khanna between Fukuyama's End of History and Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. He is more accurately triangulated with historian-strategist Robert Kaplan and columnist-guru Thomas Friedman: brilliantly observant like Kaplan and epigrammatically clever like Friedman, but simply not up to the task of making strategic sense of it all. When it comes to grand strategic vision, Khanna basically punts, tossing ...