The Next Empire by Edward Baker

Parag Khanna has spent more than two years when he was 30 years old, travelling to more than 100 countries. To see the flash points of geopolitics and globalization. Khanna posits that the struggle for global economic and diplomatic influence over the coming decades will pit three empires - the United States, the European Union , and China -.

In the future envisioned by Khanna, the empires power will be based not solely on military strength but rather on a broader set of variables : “economic productivity, global market share, technology innovation, natural resource endowments, and population size, as well as intangible factors such as national willpower and diplomatic skill.” For Khanna, a senior research at the Washington, the variables from wich the empires gain power are of great consequence to the United States, as it adapts its coalition model to meet changing conditions. Khanna recently sat down with strategy+business to discuss his view of the world as it applies to the role of United States multinationals and the fture of American competitiveness.


2. Will Indonesia in the future be one of those developed countries competitors?
Yes, of course. As long as Indonesia got the will to be one of those. Indonesia has to developed itself to become more eligible for compete with those countries. With technology and informatics spreading issues, and the ability to compete are completely owned by Indonesia, Indonesia always got the opportunities to compete with those developed countries.

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