It's like we've been on a boat without anybody on the bridge for 30 years, no one steering, and now suddenly t were n the mddle of a storm, and we're try to mobilize. But these are the sort of, these are the problems with with liberal democracy, aren't they? In new ork you'l have the flexibility when the government changes but planning is very short time. And usually people get oss things wrong, but its what you learn from it.
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of two seminal recent books on the shifting geopolitics of the world: The Silk Roads and its follow-up, The New Silk Roads. He speaks to fellow historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore at the Cliveden Literary Festival about how we may be currently witnessing the end of a historical era amid the emergence of a brand new one.
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