Bookshelf: Business Books for the Executive's Nightstand

By Kirk Shinkle

Posted: February 28, 2008

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
—By Parag Khanna (Random House)
America's "unipolar moment" is at an end, according to Khanna, a fellow at the New America Foundation. He sees the European Union's soft diplomacy, hard cash, and offer of membership and the demographic heft of China as the two new standard-bearers of world power. His advice for America? Engage, globalize, or lose out.

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