Bacei: Is belt and rob policy a better way of empire building or spreading influence than the traditional empires that we ill read? Bacei: We showed in the nineteenth century. What do they want? O oi's a betyaway. Because they're not enslaving people. But exactly which threats, where to whom and why? All o those, you need to look at individual country's individual projects. And i think requires a proper, detailed answers.
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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