馬凱碩（Kishore Mahbubani），現任新加坡國立大學李光耀公共政策學院院長，被認為是新加坡內閣資政李光耀的第一智囊，任職新加坡外交部長達30餘年，曾擔任新加坡常駐聯閤國代錶、聯閤國安理會輪值主席。 《時代》雜誌稱他是“21世紀領袖的代錶人物”、《經濟學人》稱他是“亞洲的'湯因比'”、《華盛頓郵報》稱他是“推動儒教倫理的'馬剋斯•韋伯'”。 他被視為亞洲價值觀在國際上的宣揚者和整個亞洲的發言人，也成為亞洲最具國際聲譽的公共知識分子之一。 2005年，他被美國《外交政策》雜誌及英國《展望》雜誌評選為“全球百大傑齣知識分子”。 其著作有《亞洲人會思考嗎》、《超越無知年代：重建美國與世界的信任》，《新亞洲半球》是他的第三部著作。

One of Asia's leading intellectuals illuminates what will be on the agenda as Western domination ends and the Asian renaissance impacts world politics, markets, and history. For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now they are ready to become co-drivers. Asians have finally understood, absorbed, and implemented Western best practices in many areas: from free-market economics to modern science and technology, from meritocracy to rule of law. They have also become innovative in their own way, creating new patterns of cooperation not seen in the West. Will the West resist the rise of Asia? The good news is that Asia wants to replicate, not dominate, the West. For a happy outcome to emerge, the West must gracefully give up its domination of global institutions, from the IMF to the World Bank, from the G7 to the UN Security Council. History teaches that tensions and conflicts are more likely when new powers emerge. This, too, may happen. But they can be avoided if the world accepts the key principles for a new global partnership spelled out in Tehran to Tokyo .