Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani, author, "The New Asian Hemisphere"

Kishore Mahbubani's latest book tackles a topic that should be of wide interest in America: the rise of Asia. Mahbubani, former ambassador of Singapore to the United Nations and one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 public intellectuals in the world, will shed light on several important trends affecting us all. "This is a splendid book [that] must be read by every Western policymaker; it is a tour de force." - Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University economist