Peter Frankopan

Oxford

Professor of Global History at Oxford. Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Silk Roads. Environment & Climate Change. Co-host of the Legacy podcast

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A Bitter Pill: How pharmaceuticals are rewriting the rules of rivers, marine life and ecosystems that depend on them

2 days ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

I wrote yesterday about Sinking Cities, and about the damage caused by unsustainable water depletion. The 28 cities with the largest population in the US are all sinking. That creates problems that are very expensive to fix - and are likely to trigger long-term consequencs about viability, about migration, collapsed real estate values and dead cities that are very familiar to a history of urban settlement.
Global Threads with Peter Frankopan

5 days ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

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Operation Sindoor: some key takeaways

6 days ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

Indian operations against positions in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in Pakistan itself came as retaliation for the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people - mainly Indian tourists - last month. The escalation of tension, first about water right, and then with Indian military strikes looked as though it might accelerate to all-out war between two nuclear powers.
Empire, Inequality and the Architecture of Collapse

1 week ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

In the early years of the first millennium, two great empires cast long shadows across the earth. Rome, encircling the Mediterranean like a bronze ring, stretched from the rainy hills of Britain to the sands of Syria. To the East, the Han dynasty ruled over a vast realm of rice paddies and river valleys, orchestrating a courtly ballet of taxation and administration from its heart in Chang’an/Xian.
The US-China trade war is about to get worse - and it will get worse for Americans first

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Peter Frankopan

CommentThe Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Can they contain this? Even if the US and China make a swift agreement, America will still have a $2 trillion hole to fillGetty ImagesPeter Frankopan2 minutes ago COMMENTSGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard.
Peter Frankopan: Trump has declared war on China - history tells us it won't end quickly

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Peter Frankopan

It has been quite a week. In fact, it has been quite a start to the year. The news cycle never stops – but it has rarely moved faster. Donald Trump’s threats to invade Panama seem an aeon ago – even the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House feels like it happened months ago. If you like your politics to be action-packed, it’s hard to beat the chaos of Trump’s second term in office.
Global Threads with Peter Frankopan

1 month ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

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Sicker, less connected, less alert and lonelier....

1 month ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

‘Liberation Day’ has brought chaos to global stock markets, torpedoed confidence in the US as a reliable partner and set fire to business confidence - as well as to people’s pensions and long-term plans. President Trump keeps maintaining that the US is on the cusp of a new golden age, assuring his followers on social media that the cunning plan is working and that everyone will surely bend at the demand of the leader of the free world.
The Emperor's folly

1 month ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

The Roman emperor Nero, wrote Suetonius, ‘practiced every sort of obscenity.’He was a man, according to a host of Roman authors, who was a bad ruler with an even worse character. He was attention-seeking and narcissistic; he was petulant and arbitrary; he was prone to insulting and humiliating people in public. Global Threads with Peter Frankopan is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
The meltdown continues

1 month ago | peterfrankopan.substack.com | Peter Frankopan

No need to panic anyone ! Everything is under control. ‘Things are going very well’, said the leader of the Free World as he single-handedly wiped trillions off the global economy, set the world on course for a depression and torpedoed the post-war global order. ‘I said this is exactly the way it is’, Trump continued. ‘We have six or seven trillion dollars coming into our country.’ That will be needed to replace the $4trn the markets have lost since his grand plan was announced on Wednesday.