Parag Khanna is senior research analyst at the Brookings Institution and manages the Global Governance Initiative of the World Economic Forum. The sequel to his December 2002 essay “The Axis of Democracy” was published in In the National Interest (September 2003).

Recent articles

Parag Khanna looks at the lines on maps that unite us, not the borders that divide us. Empires drew borders, nationalisms splintered them; the cold war drew borders and its end has again increased the number of borders. But globalisation draws different lines on maps -- the lines that connect rather than the ones that divide. Watch the video of Para Khanna giving his tour d'horizon of geopolitics as viewed from the world of infrastructure links.

The United States, founded in struggle against empire in the age of nationalism, must forge a sense of national interdependence in the age of globalisation. A democratic initiative seeks to make the day after 9/11 the springboard of an effort of imaginative renewal – not simply in America, but worldwide.