Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani (born October 24, 1948 in Singapore ) is a political scientist and diplomat from Singapore.

Life

From 1971 to 2004 Mahbubani was in the service of the Singapore Foreign Ministry. Among other things, he was ambassador to Cambodia , Malaysia , the United States and the United Nations . He is currently Professor of Political Science at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore . In his books, which are also aimed at a wider audience, he advocates the thesis that the supremacy of the West is coming to an end and that the world will be dominated by Asia , especially China , in the future . The West should therefore stop trying to patronize Asian states with reference to democracy and human rights . In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University , and in 2019 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

bibliography

• Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide Between East and West. Steerforth, 2001, ISBN 978-1-58642-033-8 ; Times Editions; 3rd edition, 2004, ISBN 978-981-232-789-5
• Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World . Perseus Books Group, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58648-268-8
• The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East . Public Affairs, 2008, ISBN 978-1-58648-466-8
  • The Return of Asia: The End of Western Dominance . Propylaea, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-549-07351-3 .
• The Great Convergence. Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World. Public Affairs, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-61039-033-0
• Can Singapore Survive? . Straits Times Books, 2015, ISBN 978-981-4342-97-1 .
• The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace . Ridge Books, 2017, ISBN 978-981-4722-49-0 .
• Has the West Lost It? A provocation . Penguin Books, 2018, ISBN 978-0-241-31286-5 .
• Has China won? The Chinese challenge to American primacy . PublicAffairs, New York 2020. ISBN 978-1-54176-813-0 .

Web links

Commons : Kishore Mahbubani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Germany's destiny: to lead Europe to lead the world )
• "The rule of the West is coming to an end" (Wirtschaftswoche, May 25, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Spiegel of May 19, 2008, p. 61
2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Honorary Degree Recipients, 1892–1999 (Dalhousie University) )