Peter Frankopan
@peterfrankopan
Professor of Global History at Oxford. Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Silk Roads. Environment & Climate Change. Co-host of the Legacy podcast
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http://www.peterfrankopan.com 03-12-2008 23:34:55
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Peter Frankopan Wow. Time runs fast! It was a pleasure to read your fantastic book over the roofs of the Shymkent in Kazakhstan - a important 2200 year old city at the old and new silk road. We a curious about the updates of the anniversary edition.
China, Russia and the ‘Dragon-Bear’ embrace on.ft.com/4nuNqI9 via @financialtimes Peter Frankopan: "...about 85 per cent of the 60 'mega-empires' in history — states controlling at least 1mn square kilometres of land — emerged either in or close to the Eurasian steppe belt.
Outstanding - and beautifully written - essay by Alec Russell on the looming crisis in Bosnia ft.com/content/e41208…
A long-read by Peter Frankopan, I recommend reading on the China-Russia relations. ft.com/content/52507a…
"All the receipts are so short [that... my hairs stand upright to think of it" Robert Cecil, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth I in 1601. Somecomfort for Rachel Reeves that she stands in a long line of worrying about £££ (from Prof Anna Whitelock's wonderful new The Sun Rising)
1:🧵on America's misperception of Asian challenges and aspirations. In this deep dive into America's role in Asia, I pull the thread on several themes that have dominated my work for over a decade and concern me hugely as a strategist and former diplomat: pacificpolarity.substack.com/p/evan-feigenb…
