Carnegie Council

Kishore Mahbubani was in the Singapore foreign service from 1971 to 2004. He has been posted in Cambodia, Malaysia, and Washington D.C., and served two postings as Singapore ambassador to the UN.

Mahbubani has also served as president of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. From 1993 to 1998 he was permanent secretary at the Foreign Ministry of Singapore. In 2004 he was appointed as dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Asians are building on the Western "pillars of wisdom" says Mahbubani, the most important of which is meritocracy; and the good news is that the "march to modernity" is spreading across Asia and onwards to the Islamic world.

Resources by this Author:

• Economic Sanctions
• The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
• The Dangers of Democratic Delusions [Full Text]
• The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
• The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
• Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World
• Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World
• The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century
• Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide Between East and West