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The New Silk Roads

By Peter Frankopan
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From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now—as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.  

"All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues Peter Frankopan in this revelatory new book.

In the age of Brexit and Trump, the West is buffeted by the tides of isolationism and fragmentation. Yet to the East, this is a moment of optimism as a new network of relationships takes shape along the ancient trade routes. In The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan takes us on an eye-opening journey through the region, from China's breathtaking infrastructure investments to the flood of trade deals among Central Asian republics to the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Russia. This important book asks us to put aside our preconceptions and see the world from a new—and ultimately hopeful—perspective.

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“I made it halfway befroe I had to give up. An absolutely valueless book. It's just a regurgitation of random headlines about the "Silk Road" countries from the five years preceding publication with little speculative tags every few headlines. It has not been proofread, or at least Bloomsbury need to fire whoever copy edited it. It's like if Jack Kerouac just spent the entirety of on the road reading Foreign Pomicy. the Economist and the FT (Derogatory). I dont think any thinking person can get anything useful from this. I am sure the original Silk road is a good history, but this is a terrible piece of contemporary history(?) or political journalism? Who knows what it is really other than an obvious cash grab capitalising on the original.”

About Peter Frankopan

PETER FRANKOPAN is professor of global history at Oxford University. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. He lives in Oxford.

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