Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

　　各國近年來紛紛著眼於「關係網」的建立，透過交通、能源和通信基礎設施的擴建，能連接最多地區的國家將能在國際經貿環境下拔得頭籌。全世界每年花在此三項建設的投資高達十兆美元，將全球化具體定義為供應鏈化。全球6400萬公里長的道路、400 萬公里長的鐵路、200 萬公里長的油氣管道和 100 萬公里長的網路電纜都遠超過全球國界線的50萬公里。碩大的關係網將供需市場內的商品與人才，經由交通、網路等不斷擴張的管道流動。國境越來越模糊，城市成為了經濟和文化聯繫的中心。



　　作者希望商業往來取代意識形態，並在大的組織崩解後又以小聯盟的形態重新組合，或許能通過關係網疏通、平衡這個資源有限、貧富差距巨大的世界。



　　訪察足跡遍及全世界的暢銷作家Parag Khanna ，前兩本著作提出的新世界架構給予政經觀察者與投資客懇切的分析與參考。《The Second World》中，將全球重劃成三個世界，並著墨在第二世界中有希望發展進第一世界的國家，中亞、東南亞與中南美國家如何在世界三大經濟體美國、歐盟與中國的競合下，走出自己的路線。《How to Run the World》進一步討論目前國際間諸多待解決的問題，從撲朔迷離的外交手段，到戰爭、貧窮、環保、人權等議題，透過外交官、技術專家的視野為讀者畫出國際情勢的紛雜藍圖。新書《Connectography》則打破國與國間既定觀點，跟著「關係網」走遍世界，除了找尋均衡各地資源不均的問題外，也帶給讀者更多的國際一手情報。

From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers--and people--will win.

Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world's burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny.

In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets--a race China is now winning, having launched a wave of infrastructure investments to unite Eurasia around its new Silk Roads. The United States can only regain ground by fusing with its neighbors into a super-continental North American Union of shared resources and prosperity.

Connectography offers a unique and hopeful vision for the future. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africa's fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the world's ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together.

Praise for Connectography

"Incredible . . . With the world rapidly changing and urbanizing, Khanna's] proposals might be the best way to confront a radically different future."--The Washington Post

"Clear and coherent . . . a well-researched account of how companies are weaving ever more complicated supply chains that pull the world together even as they squeeze out inefficiencies. . . . He] has succeeded in demonstrating that the forces of globalization are winning."--Adrian Woolridge, The Wall Street Journal

"Bold . . . With an eye for vivid details, Khanna has . . . produced an engaging geopolitical travelogue."--Foreign Affairs

"For those who fear that the world is becoming too inward-looking, Connectography is a refreshing, optimistic vision."--The Economist

"Connectivity has become a basic human right, and gives everyone on the planet the opportunity to provide for their family and contribute to our shared future. Connectography charts the future of this connected world."--Marc Andreessen, general partner, Andreessen Horowitz

"Khanna's scholarship and foresight are world-class. A must-read for the next president."--Chuck Hagel, former U.S. secretary of defense

Parag Khanna is a global strategist, world traveler, and bestselling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and a Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Khanna is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization and author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. He has been a fellow at the New America Foundation and Brookings Institution, advised the U.S. National Intelligence Council, and worked in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical adviser to U.S. Special Operations Forces. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He serves on numerous governmental and corporate advisory boards and is a councilor of the American Geographical Society, a trustee of the New Cities Foundation, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.