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In The Silk Roads and its sequel, The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan invites readers to reconsider global history and contemporary geopolitics from a deliberately shifted vantage point away from the familiar Atlantic axis. The Romanian editions published by Editura Trei make accessible a narrative project that seeks to re-center Eurasia as the primary engine of historical change, exchange, and power accumulation. Blending grand historical synthesis with present-day analysis, Frankopan advances a persuasive yet contestable argument about the continuity between ancient trade routes and modern networks of energy, finance, and influence. Together, the two volumes oscillate between scholarly ambition and narrative seduction, raising important questions about historical causality, geopolitical determinism, and the risks inherent in reframing global complexities through a single, organizing metaphor.
ŒCONOMICA no. 2/2025
Book Review: Peter Frankopan and the Unlikely Smoothness of the Silk Roads, Old and New
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