After publishing articles in leading American journals for over two decades, Kishore Mahbubani was described as 'an Asian Toynbee, preoccupied with the rise and fall of civilizations' by The Economist. Trained in philosophy in North ...

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable? China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They...

For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen centuries b...