A defining image of our contemporary era might be a middle-class family at an airport in Asia or Africa, their smartphones tucked into their bags, boarding a flight to Dubai or Singapore or London. Such an image won’t capture headlines or go viral, but its commonplace nature reflects a dramatic transformation in our world over […]
Author Archives: Afshin Molavi
Afshin Molavi is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and editor and founder of the Emerging World newsletter. Follow him on Twitter @AfshinMolavi.
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The eight billionth question
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