Friday Favorites: Dec. 5
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This week we have a really neat recommendation culled from an interview by my colleague Elizabeth Ganga, who interviewed Parag Khanna, a recognized expert on global politics who was also selected by Esquire Magazine as one of “The 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century.” Her interview-story will appear next week. 
Right now, he says he is reading “Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East” by Karl E. Meyer and Shireen Blair Brysac (W.W. Norton, 2008).
“This dynamic husband-wife duo have written some of the richest accounts of 19th and 20th century Eurasian history, and in this book they profile British and American adventurers and viceroys who attempted to create the Middle East in their image and why they failed. It’s highly relevant given what’s happened this past decade in West-Mideast relations,” he told Ganga this afternoon in an email.
Parag Khanna is Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He has written “The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order” (Random House, 2008).
In his book, Khanna offers a study of the 21st century’s emerging geopolitical market place dominated by first world superpowers, the U.S., Europe and China. He has served as an advisor to U.S. Special Operation Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and coached Barack Obama’s campaign on foreign policy.
You can hear him speak and meet him at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at Chappaqua Library on North Greeley Avenue.
It is free and open to the public
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