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Scholar Parag Khanna explains the title of his book, The Second World, and how the United States' global influence is diminishing. Environmentalist Van Jones discusses the importance of green-collar jobs to the African American community.
Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna
Full Interview. (9:52)
Parag Khanna is an expert on geopolitics and global governance. As director of the World Economic Forum's Global Governance Initiative at the Brookings Institution, he works to find innovative collaboration strategies to redefine diplomacy for the 21st century. He was a senior advisor to U.S. Special Ops forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and has written for major global publications. He's also the author of The Second World. Born in India, Khanna is completing his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics.
Van Jones
Van Jones
Full Interview. (12:56)
Van Jones has a history of activism. The founder-exec director of the Oakland, CA-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has emerged as a national environmental leader, calling for green economic development in urban America. He's founding president of Green For All, a national campaign for green-collar opportunities, and worked for passage, in the House, of the Green Jobs Act of 2007. Jones holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and has worked as a journalist, independent publisher and cartoonist.