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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
More unstructured and flip flopping between views of the politics and economics that underlie changes in current “silk roads”. Connections that bring strategic benefit to multiple interests and shape a development direction.
Overall the book is fact filled, heavily tuned to the Trupist disruptive factors and light on abstractions and overviews that were more central in the previous book. This makes the book not as useful, and harder to draw conclusions from.
I would venture the author should have used a different title and written his true sequel a bit later with more of an integrated abstract view.
Overall the book is fact filled, heavily tuned to the Trupist disruptive factors and light on abstractions and overviews that were more central in the previous book. This makes the book not as useful, and harder to draw conclusions from.
I would venture the author should have used a different title and written his true sequel a bit later with more of an integrated abstract view.
informative
slow-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
adventurous
informative
Entirely Western-centric. For a country about the East, there were countless references to Brexit, Trump tweets and US-EU relations.
Reportage and literature about the East is extremely rare and so I was looking for a book that would help open my knowledge of this area up more. This book was not that.
That said, when the author moved onto discussions about relations between silk road countries, it was very interesting.
However.
This was always framed from the perspective of how each event affected the global world order - AKA Washington and the West.
The author is right, the historical story of today is about the shift in power from West to East, and the growth of these economies. Where I disagree with him, is in his emphasis on how it will affect the west, as opposed to how it will affect the east.
Reportage and literature about the East is extremely rare and so I was looking for a book that would help open my knowledge of this area up more. This book was not that.
That said, when the author moved onto discussions about relations between silk road countries, it was very interesting.
However.
This was always framed from the perspective of how each event affected the global world order - AKA Washington and the West.
The author is right, the historical story of today is about the shift in power from West to East, and the growth of these economies. Where I disagree with him, is in his emphasis on how it will affect the west, as opposed to how it will affect the east.
An incredibly long-winded way of saying ‘Donald trump is bad’ - no structure, nothing that you wouldn’t have read in the news, horribly proofread.
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
informative
medium-paced
This book was definitely not proofread
Ein an sich informatives Buch zu einem sehr wichtigen Thema. Das Manko aus meiner Sicht ist die Vorgehensweise von Frankopan. Zunächst referiert er Quellen, die die Aktivitäten und Visionen rund um die Seidenstraßen darstellen. Dann referiert er Quellen, die die Versäumnisse des Westens darlegen. Erst spät fragt er kritisch nach und untersucht andere Strategien. Überhaupt fehlt es mir an einer Erzählung Frankopans mit einer eigenen Analyse. Streckenweise hat das Buch Verlautbarungscharakter.