In 2008, after a stint as a Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution and while serving as a Senior Fellow at the think tank now known as New America, The New York Times Magazine published Parag Khanna's essay, “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony,” a sweeping look at the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new world order. It was an excerpt from his book, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), and it helped him gain international acclaim as an anal