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The emerging ‘second world’

NEW DELHI: Penguin Books India has released Parag Khanna’s latest book “The Second World – Empires and Influence in the New Global Order”, a savvy, streetwise primer on dozens of individual countries that adds up to a coherent theory of global politics.

The book provides a bold and visionary tour of the most important and least understood countries shaping the future of the global order. Parag argues that in the 21st Century, the age of American supremacy is all but over, brought about by increasing influence of what he terms the “second world”—Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, the Middle East and East Asia.

Travelling from Azerbaijan to Venezuela, China’s hinterlands to Gaddafi’s Libya, Parag explores these countries and their global significance.

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