The New Silk Roads : The Present and Future of the World Frankopan Peter (2019)

In this revised and updated edition, Peter Frankopan takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the ancient trade routes today. In an age of Brexit and Trump, the isolation and fragmentation of the Western world contrast sharply with events along the Silk Roads, where ties are being strengthened and mutual cooperation established. Following the routes eastwards from Europe through Russia and the Middle East to China, Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of continual shifts in the centre of power, many of which are absent from Western headlines. This prescient contemporary history reminds us that we live in a profoundly interconnected world and asks us to re-examine who we are and where we stand in it. The book illuminates themes on which all our lives and livelihoods depend.