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Peter Frankopan

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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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The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ Beijing and Washington must avoid

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By Peter Frankopan
| The Spectator Australia
These are good times to be a scholar of the classical world. Last summer, Donald Trump issued an order that all federal architecture needed to be ‘beautiful’, noting that the Founding Fathers ‘wanted America’s public buildings to inspire the American people and encourage civic virtue’. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had therefore ‘consciously modelled the most important buildings in Washington, D.C., on the classical architecture of ancient Athens and Rome’.
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Global Threads with Peter Frankopan

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By Peter Frankopan
| Substack
Today is the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), an annual event that is sometimes described as ‘Russia’s Davos’ - a time when the great and the good gather to talk about investments and opportunities. President Putin uses the event to project an image of economic resilience, attract foreign investment and - in recent years - to demonstrate that Russia remains connected to the wider world despite sanctions and isolation.
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Why Iran is right to be paranoid Outsiders have interfered for centuries

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By Peter Frankopan
| UnHerd
(Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto/Getty) IsraelKhomeiniMossadeghThe Great Game For the spiritual head of a militant theocracy, Ali Khamenei was a remarkably prolific poster on social media. At the start of February, as pressure from Washington started to build, he — or anyway a lackey — began issuing a flurry of stark political statements on X. “What is the issue between the United States and Iran?” Khamenei asked his followers.
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