Global Threads with Peter Frankopan

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Iran’s Grand Strategy — imagining a world without American hegemony
My review in this weekend’s Financial Times of Vali Nasr’s new history of the Islamic Republic, which explores the deep roots of Tehran’s siege…
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Day Two
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Some early thoughts on Israel's strike on Iran
In the early hours of this morning (13 June), Israel launched a coorderation wave of attacks on Iran.
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A Global Threads geopolitical round-up: some extra-juicy stories
A Critical minerals non-event; France to defend Greenland; Rubio congratulates Russia; spilled beans about the inner workings of China and Xi Jinping's…
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The Riches at the Bottom of the Sea: The Wrecks That Helped Bankrupt an Empire
In June 1708, the Spanish galleon San José was struck by a British cannon and exploded off the coast of present-day Colombia.
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The Second Life of Smartphones: Building a Greener Future from the Scrap Heap
I’ve been in the Baltic States this week, so have been catching up on what some of the finest minds have been thinking about and working on.
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Man's best friend; but an enemy to biodiversity
I’ve been a reluctant dog owner for a long time.
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Caught in a trap of his own making: Trump and the bite of reality
‘The president is obsessed with having a call with Xi’, is how one senior US official who is familiar with trade talks puts it.
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Leprosy, Armadillos and the Long Memory of Disease
Diseases we thought were brought from Europe circulated in the Americas before Columbus...
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Central Asia, glaciers and global water supply
In The Earth Transformed, I wrote about how shifts in climate have always been agents of profound transformation.
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On to Dushanbe
Just one of the many cities that tells the stories of the Silk Roads networks over millennia
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Operation Spider Web: Ukraine’s Deep Strikes into Russia
The most damaging day for Moscow's military since the Second World War
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