by Kris Kong | Feb 21, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
By Kate Hoagland On February 15, Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, discussed the major themes of his new book The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World at Harvard...
by Kris Kong | Feb 19, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
The exchanges between Santiago Zabala and Hamid Dabashi published in Al Jazeera brings about one of the crucial issues of the 21st century: the increasing process of re-westernisation (the revamping of Western ways of thinking, from Christianity to Liberalism and...
by Kris Kong | Feb 17, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Pablo Pardo | Washington El 42% de los católicos del mundo vive en Latinoamérica, pero esa región solo tiene el 16% de los cardenales que van a elegir al nuevo Papa. África tiene aproximadamente el 12% de los católicos y el 9,4% del colegio cardenalicio. Los católicos...
by Kris Kong | Feb 15, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
We are still living through what the historian John Lewis Gaddis once called a “long peace”. The threat of a global thermonuclear conflagration passed with the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are fewer armed conflicts – between states and within them – than at any time...
by Kris Kong | Feb 12, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
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...
by Kris Kong | Feb 9, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
“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...
