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Parag Khanna

Dr. Parag Khanna is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008) and How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011).

Saudi Arabian women, seeking a job, stand in line to talk with recruiters during a job fair in Riyadh January 25, 2012. It is Women's Day at the first of a series of job fairs launched by the Saudi government this year to find employment for its citizens. In coming months the scheme aims to arrange interviews for 15,000 men and women out of 100,000 applicants, holding similar fairs in the cities of Jeddah and Dammam. Picture taken January 25, 2012. To match Mideast Money SAUDI-ECONOMY/REFORMS REUTERS/

Saudi Arabia’s commercial class looks to future

Parag Khanna