Kishore Mahbubani is Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He previously served for 33 years in Singapore's diplomatic service and is recognised as an expert on Asian and world affairs.
A Welcome Message from Kishore Mahbubani
The past two centuries of Western domination of world history have been a major historical aberration. All aberrations end eventually. Asia will return to centre stage again. However, many leading global minds cannot understand this because their mental maps have been trapped by narrow Western worldviews. The main goal of my writings is to awaken the world to the completely different historical era we are entering. My writings may take you out of your comfort zone but I hope they will help you to understand how different this century will be from previous centuries.
Latest News:
Professor Kishore Mahbubani’s new book, The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World will launch in New York on Tuesday 5 February 2013. To coincide with the launch he will attend a number of public book launches at part of an international book tour. For details of the lectures and other book tour events click here.
Recent Articles
[For the New Book The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World]
Recent Book Reviews
Dean Mahbubani Discusses His Book’s One World Logic at HKS
By Kate Hoagland, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School, 21 January 2013
Is the US Ready To Be Number Two?
YaleGlobal, 11 February 2013
The rule of more
By Philip Stephens, Financial Times, 15 January 2013
Governing the global village
By Nitin Pai, Business Standard, 12 January 2013
The future of the world - Floating hope
Economist, 09 January 2013
Can Asia step up to remake global order?
By Nathan Gardels, South China Morning Post, 07 January 2013
What to read in 2013
By Margaret Slattery, Foreign Policy, 31 December 2012
Keeping the ship on course
The World Today, Volume 68, Number 11, December 2012
[Other Articles]
Are Singaporeans ideological prisoners?
Straits Times, May 11, 2013
Singapore's biggest blessing: Safety
Straits Times, 13 April 2013
Calm in Korea is only a phone call away
Financial Times, 02 April 2013
Mahbubani on “What is governance?”
The Governance Blog, 26 March 2013
Singapore: Butterfly or frog?
Straits Times, 09 March 2013
To pivot, poison, or make peace
American Review, Issue 11
Dynastic Asia
Project Syndicate, 3 Jan 2013
The east will rise above the west
Financial Times, 28 December 2012
Singapore's record on water and built environment provides a lesson for Asia
The Guardian, 14 December 2012
Keeping the ship on course
The World Today, Volume 68, Number 11, December 2012
Obama’s chance to fashion a new global order
Financial Times, 07 November 2012
Time to accept our place in Asian region
The Australian Financial Review, 29 October 2012
Rule of law offers foundation for long-term democratic hopes
Global Times, 14 October 2012
Is China’s slowdown just western wishful thinking?
Financial Times, 11 October 2012
Australia’s destiny in the Asian Century
The Jakarta Post, 08 September 2012
The Global village
Finance and Development, September Issue 2012
A Lawsky unto himself, or why New York erred on StanChart
Financial Times, 12 August 2012
Rising Peacefully Together
Foreign Policy, 01 August 2012
Is China Losing the Diplomatic Plot?
Project Syndicate, 26 July 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO)
Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2012
The Lady should look to Asia not Europe
Financial Times, 14 June 2012
Kishore Mahbubani: The future we want
United Nations, June 2012
Can the EU learn lessons from ASEAN?
Europe's World, 22 May 2012
Forget the G8, the US needs a China-India summit
Financial Times, 18 May 2012
The west must work to understand a new world order
Financial Times A-List, 20 April 2012
The OECD: A Classic Sunset Organisation
Global Policy Volume 3. Issue 1. February 2012
Western capitalism has much to learn from Asia
Financial Times, 7 February 2012
China could lead with traditional value of humility and listening
ShanghaiDaily, 19 January 2012
We're all in the same global boat
ShanghaiDaily, 18 January 2012
Looking to China and India for leadership of new world order
ShanghaiDaily, 17 January 2012
Global Indian – Inclusive Growth
The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Jaipur, 8 January, 2012
