Peter Frankopan
Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
Peter Frankopan is the director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015). He lives in Oxford.
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Global history
Don’t let the rise of Europe steal world history
Peter Frankopan
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War and peace
War, on drugs
Killing people is hard and horrible. No wonder that warriors, from berserkers to jihadis, need drugs to get in the mood
Peter Frankopan
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Economic history
The heart of the world
The Silk Road – from the Eastern Mediterranean to China’s Pacific shore – is once again the centre of the world
Peter Frankopan