British historian Peter Frankopan’s The New Silk Roads helps us understand a world where China has now become the leader of globalisation processes. It explores no other topic than the geopolitics of the Eurasian continent. Frankopan describes China and the vast Eurasian region it increasingly dominates, from the eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific, and does so while drawing attention to the increasingly chaotic domestic and foreign policies of the United States, the weightlessness of the European Union and the consequences of Brexit. With his outstanding encyclopaedic knowledge, global vision and factual style, Frankopan’s books always provoke a strong response. The New Silk Roads is an exciting and fascinating read for anyone interested in how the world works and wants to be able to navigate current issues in geopolitics.