Governing the global village

Governing the global village

Kishore Mahbubani has long been a cheerleader for the alternative to Western dominance. In his first book, published in the mid-1990s, he warned Westerners that they must change their mindsets to adapt to the coming rise of Asia (meaning East Asia). In his second...
Governing the global village

The future of the world – Floating hope

“HOPE is on the move,” noted this paper two years ago in an editorial contrasting “the West’s growing pessimism” with the optimism felt by many people in emerging markets. Kishore Mahbubani, a former Singaporean diplomat and now dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of...