EBRD & The British-Croatian Society

cordially invited alumni to the annual

Chris Cviić Memorial Lecture

The One Belt, One Road Initiative in History
The construction of foreign and economic policy in the Adriatic in the Middle Ages

by Peter Frankopan
Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford

Many see China’s One Belt, One Road initiative as the most important development that will shape the 21st century. A thousand years ago, a city at the other end of the Silk Roads was considering how to extend and expand its reach. Venice’s One Belt, One Road saw its interests and influence grow through the Adriatic and then further into the Mediterranean. In this talk, the historian Peter Frankopan, author of the highly acclaimed Silk Roads: A New History of the World, will look at parallels between past and present and at what lessons can be learned from history.