Kishore Mahbubani: The Great Convergence

For years former diplomat and academic Kishore Mahbubani has studied the changing relationship between Asia and the U.S. in works like ‘Can Asians Think?’ and ‘The New Asian Hemisphere’. In ‘The Great Convergence’, he assesses East and West at a remarkable turning point in world history and reaches an incredible conclusion: China stands poised to become the world’s largest economy as soon as 2016. Unprecedented numbers of the world’s population, driven by Asian economic growth, are being lifted out of poverty and into the middle class. And with this creation of a world-wide middle class, there is an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values: a truly global civilization. Please join Kishore Mahbubani, in conversation with Ian Bremmer, for a discussion on the policies and approaches necessary to govern in an increasingly interconnected and complex global environment.