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。

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 .