I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan

Migration is a topic at the top of many different agendas but why are people moving and what can we learn from history to map out possible futures? Peter discusses this and more with Parag Khanna, founder & managing partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm.

Parag's new book MOVE and past work can be found on his website - www.paragkhanna.com

Keep up to date with Peter's latest news via www.peterfrankopan.com or on twitter - @peterfrankopan

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When we choose what we eat it can have a huge impact on our environmental footprint.

Author Sarah Briddle has written one of the books of the year, Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Change Your Diet: The Easiest way to Help Save the Planet, and within it she measures the choices we take and what they mean for the world around us.

Well worth investigating more of Sarah's work via - www.sarahbridle.net/index.html

Keep in touch with Peter on Twitter - @peterfrankopan

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Refugees and migrants take their path for many different reasons one of which is economic. How does the money they send back to their homes - remittance - change their families, communities and even governments? Outside of this how does their new cultural capital impact how they see the world around them and from where they travelled from?

Pennsylvania State University's Joseph Wright, along with Abel Escribà-Folch and Covadonga Meseguer have written Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships - available in the US right now and the UK early 2022 - to look at these questions and more.

Peter and Joseph spoke over Zoom for this episode of I've Been Thinking.

Professor Joseph Wright's bio at Pennsylvania State University including links to further reading - https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/jgw12

Peter's Oxford bio can be accessed here - https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-peter-frankopan#/

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The 25th Bond film is in cinemas now and in this episode of I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan he digs into the real life world of espionage, counter terrorism and the life of Bond creator Ian Flemming.

First up Peter is in conversation with Sir David Omand. He was the first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, served on the Joint Intelligence Committee, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, and before that Director of GCHQ. His recent book How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence gives a real insight into information gathering.

In part two we hear from Dr Robert Bartholomew about the mysteriousHavana Syndrome. Are Western embassies across the World being targeted by a new sonic weapon? He along with Dr Robert Baloh have written extensively on the subject.

And to wrap this episode we speak to Andrew Lycett, author of an outstanding biography of Ian Flemming - the creator of the one and only 007.

Should you wish, all of today's guests and there work can be found on the links below as well as the wider web...

Sir David Omand - www.penguin.co.uk/authors/138288/david-omand.html

Dr Robert Bartholomew - www.rebartholomew.com

Andrew Lycett - www.andrewlycett.co.uk

Peter can be found on Twitter via @peterfrankopan

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You've taken a hostage, but what are they worth? 97.5% of all hostages who are taken for ransom are returned but pricing is as important a factor as the negotiating.

In this episode of I've Been Thinking Peter is in conversation with Professor Anja Shortland from King's College London on the economics of kidnapping and also the world of art theft where the usual rules of law and to an extent crime, don't apply.

Do visit Professor Anja Shortland's page at King's College London with links to further papers and books - www.kcl.ac.uk/people/anja-shortland-1

Keep up to date with Peter on Twitter - @peterfrankopan

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He's been the face of opposition politic in Russia for sometime but who is Alexei Navalny? What are his goals? What tools does he wield to achieve them? How do the Kremlin head him off?

In order to answer those questions and more, Peter is joined by the authors and scholars behind Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? on this episode of I've Been Thinking - Ben Noble is Lecturer in Russian Politics at University College London, Jan Matti Dollbaum is a postdoctoral researcher at Bremen University, specialising in activism and civil society in Russia and Morvan Lallouet, a PhD candidate at the University of Kent, researching Navalny and the Russian opposition.

You can buy Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? in all good shops or direct from the publisher - www.hurstpublishers.com/book/navalny

All of this episodes contributors can be found via their websites;

Ben Noble - www.ben-noble.com

Jan Matti Dollbaum - www.janmatti.dollbaum.de

Morvan Lallouet - www.mlallouet.com

More from Peter on Twitter - @peterfrankopan

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An extra episode of I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan in your podcast feed this week.

In the media we see daily stories of projected food shortages, lack of workers and of course right now across the UK, queues on petrol forecourts.

The UK is not alone in seeing disruption to its supply chains with incidents and examples across the globe not least due to the Covid pandemic and the Ever Given shipping incident in the Suez Canal.

Ross Kennedy is a U.S.-based logistics and supply chain expert with more than fifteen years in worldwide transportation, procurement, and analysis, and on this episode of I've Been Think Peter and Ross discuss the routes of the problems we see today of food shortages on our supermarket shelves, why the UK and others are in a bind and Ross lays out the historic nature of the supple chain model.

Do follow Ross on Twitter - @man_integrated and Peter @peterfrankopan.

I've Been Thinking episode 18 looks at the face of Russian opposition politics, Alexei Navalny.

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China Unbound: A New World Disorder, journalist Joanna Chiu takes her experience of over a decade examining China's expansion and puts pen to paper to give the reader a view of it's economic power, it's sway over foreign countries, and how China's growth has been handled by Western Nations.

Peter and Joanna go under the hood of leader Xi Jinping's policies and understand how China's actions in Honk Kong should be closely observed by all nations as it could be closer to home in the future, how China has retaliated to moves against it's citizens on foreign soil and they discuss the policy of Wolf Warrior diplomacy.

You can find China Unbound: A New World Disorder in all good shops and online, and find out further information about Joanna's work at her website - www.joannachiu.com

Further thoughts, work and projects from Peter can be found via - www.peterfrankopan.com

* NOTE - this episode was recorded and produced before the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig.

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What is private education? Who goes in and who comes out?

Like Peter, Richard Beard experienced such an education and writes about its impact and how it has shaped modern government in his latest book Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England.

He and Peter get into private education's history, the breeding ground of power and its positives and negatives.

Richard's website is - www.richardbeard.info - were you can find out more about Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England and his other works.

Peter can be found on Twitter via @peterfrankopan.

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On this episode of I've Been Thinking Peter is in conversation with Vincent Brown, Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard and author of the excellent Tacky's Revolt released in 2020.

He and Peter discuss who Tacky was, the implications of the revolt on the American revolution that was to come but also the competition within Africa between Europeans and African states themselves.

More from Vincent can be found on his Harvard profile - www.scholar.harvard.edu/vbrown/biocv

Further reading and updates from Peter via - www.peterfrankopan.com

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