The New Silk Roads

Published on 15 November 2018.

November 2018 sees the publication of The New Silk Roads - The Present and Future of the World.

Once, all roads lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing.

Peter Frankopan looks at the present and the future and describes how a new world is forming across the spine of Asia, linking China, Russia, Iran, the Middle East with Central & South Asia.
While Europe and the West go through an age of crisis, the rest of the world is on the move, offering opportunities and challenges that will shape - and are already shaping the 21st century for all of us.
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World brings the story of the Silk Roads up to date.

Books of the Year 2018 - Prospect Magazine
Book of The Week - The Times
Best 17 Books of 2018 - Financial Review
Best Non-Fiction for 2019 - Indian Express
Non-Fiction Book of the Spring 2019 - Süddeutsche Zeitung

Book of the Week - London Review Bookshop
Top 10 Bestseller - Het Parool

Winner - Mediterranean Prize for Culture 2019, Fondazione Carical

The New Silk Roads has won the Luigi de Franco prize for the most important contribution to Human Sciences for 2019 by the Fondazione Carical

'Brilliant analysis'

'An engaging, sweeping and profound overview'
Osama Rizvi

'A primer on the changing world order as the world pivots East.'

'No reader will leave The New Silk Roads with her sense of the state of the world unchanged...'Frankopan has a sharp eye for startling facts'
Richard Drayton

'Entertaining and carefully researched'

'Slap bang up to date
James Crabtree

Silk Roads and New Silk Roads are 'some of the best contemporary treatises on the future of global political and economic history'
Hindol Sengupta

'If you are only going to read one non-fiction book in the coming year, let it be The New Silk Roads by Dr Frankopan....This book has all the answers and some more'
Qudsia Sajjad

'Filled with an avalanche of remarkable facts...Peter Frankopan is on a mission to show that the world is no longer all about Europe and the West.' Jan Fred van Wijnen

'Hugely stimulating....dramatically up to date'
Andrew Lycett

'Superb'
Amol Rajan

'Frankopan has written another valuable and idiosyncratic book. He has the gift of perspective – the capacity to see the wood for the trees – which he combines with a Tolstoyan knack for weaving little details into the broader sweep of human affairs'
Jamie Susskind, Daily Telegraph

'Absorbing....One of the slightly dizzying effects of reading this book is realising the sheer amount of change that has taken place globally in just three years'
Clifford Coonan, Irish Times

'A compelling, accessible account of the shift in global economic power from the increasingly fragmented West (Brexit, Trump), to the East...For anyone with an interest in global politics.'
Nicole Abedee

The new volume, The New Silk Roads, swaps history for a pacy, bang-up-to-date exploration of how China’s commercial and political heft is changing the way the world works
James Kynge - Financial Times

'Masterly mapping out of a new world order'
Justin Marozzi - Evening Standard

'A viewpoint that is as disturbing as it is eye-opening'
Joseph Wilkins - Total Politics

'Less a history book than a state-of-the-world address...full of pin-sharp, up-to-date comment' Matthew Price - The National

'Frankopan...has accurately described current geopolitical trends. The Silk Roads are rising. China’s economic and political influence is growing. The US unipolar moment has ended'
Francis P Sempa

'Frankopan’s skill is to ingest vast quantities of information without over-clogging his writing or slowing the pace of his prose. He is also adept at deploying discoveries at the cutting edge of the historical profession'
John Bew - New Statesman

'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita'
Niall Ferguson - Sunday Times

'Alarmingly up to date. The book is diverting, eclectic and has serious intent'
Roger Boyes - The Times

'Just as his earlier version "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" pulled together a global success, Frankopan's follow-up 'New Silk Roads' is an insightful, enjoyable piece that reminds his readers of the forgotten world history' - Kang Hyun-kyung.