The New Silk Roads
by Peter Frankopan
History
From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' Evening Standard 'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita' The Times Peter Frankopan's highly anticipated follow-up to the 'Book of the Decade', The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the network of relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the Silk Roads today. The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established. Following the Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In this prescient contemporary history, Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of power – all too often absent from headlines in the west. This important – and ultimately hopeful – book asks us to reread who we are and where we are in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihoods depend.
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Peter Frankopan's *The New Silk Roads* offers a compelling contemporary lens on the shifting global landscape, a narrative deeply interwoven with the intellectual currents explored in connected works like Charles Duhigg's *The Power of Habit* and Jared Diamond's *Guns, Germs, and Steel*. While seemingly disparate in their immediate subject matter, these books coalesce around a shared fascination with the underlying forces that sculpt human destiny and societal trajectories, whether at the grand geopolitical scale or the intimate, ingrained patterns of individual behavior. *The New Silk Roads* itself is a testament to this, moving beyond a simple recounting of historical events to illuminate how abstract, persistent influences – in this case, the revitalized interconnectedness along the ancient Silk Roads – are actively reshaping our present and future. This resonates powerfully with the exploration in *The Power of Habit*, where Duhigg meticulously dissects how deeply embedded behavioral patterns, akin to geopolitical currents, can be understood and transformed. The connection suggests an intellectual affinity for understanding systematic change, a desire to grasp the fundamental mechanisms driving progress, whether that progress is measured in the rise and fall of empires or the evolution of personal habits.
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