Parag Khanna Books

Every Renaissance begins with disruption. To understand our current one, we must look backward—not to repeat history but to learn from its turning points. I trace previous eras of global transformation, from the Age of Exploration to the Industrial Revolution, showing how expanding networks and tech...

From How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

We are witnessing a gradual yet profound shift away from the dominance of nation-states as the central unit of world organization. In *How to Run the World*, I argue that globalization and technology have chipped away at centralized power in ways that make traditional diplomacy seem almost obsolete....

From How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

One of the book’s most powerful insights is that migration is not an exception to human history; it is the engine of it. Khanna argues that we often talk about mobility as if it were a modern disruption, yet every major civilization was built through movement. From early human dispersal out of Afric...

From Move

A disturbing but clarifying idea in Move is that climate change will not simply alter weather patterns; it will reorganize human settlement. Khanna argues that as temperatures rise, water stress intensifies, coastlines flood, and agricultural productivity shifts, large parts of the world will become...

From Move

Khanna highlights a simple but transformative imbalance: some countries are running out of people, while others have more young people than their economies can absorb. This demographic divergence will be one of the strongest drivers of migration in the decades ahead. Aging societies in Europe, East ...

From Move

A striking theme in Move is that economic success increasingly belongs to places and people that can adapt through movement. In earlier eras, wealth was often tied to fixed assets such as land, mines, or factories. Today, value is more fluid. Talent, capital, knowledge, and entrepreneurship travel. ...

From Move