For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of the West. By 2050, three of the world’s largest economies will be Asian: China, India, and Japan. In The New Asian Hemisphere , Kishore Mahbubani argues that Western minds need to step outside their comfort zone” and prepare new mental maps to understand the rise of Asia. The West, he says, must gracefully share power with Asia by giving up its automatic domination of global institutions from the IMF to the World Bank, from the G7 to the UN Security Council. Only then will the new Asian powers reciprocate by becoming responsible stakeholders in a stable world order.

马凯硕（Kishore Mahbubani），现任新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院院长，被认为是新加坡内阁资政李光耀的第一智囊，任职新加坡外交部长达30余年，曾担任新加坡常驻联合国代表、联合国安理会轮值主席。 《时代》杂志称他是“21世纪领袖的代表人物”、《经济学人》称他是“亚洲的'汤因比'”、《华盛顿邮报》称他是“推动儒教伦理的'马克斯•韦伯'”。 他被视为亚洲价值观在国际上的宣扬者和整个亚洲的发言人，也成为亚洲最具国际声誉的公共知识分子之一。 2005年，他被美国《外交政策》杂志及英国《展望》杂志评选为“全球百大杰出知识分子”。 其著作有《亚洲人会思考吗》、《超越无知年代：重建美国与世界的信任》，《新亚洲半球》是他的第三部著作。