Parag Khanna is director of the Global Governance Initiative and senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He is the author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. He previously served as a senior geopolitical adviser to US Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The middle of the 21st century will resemble nothing so much as the Middle Ages of the 5th to 15th centuries. This was a long and uncertain period and thus an ideal metaphor to characterize our times.
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