Central Asia: Geopolitics and “New Great Game”

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Sanjay Kumar Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Great Game

British Secret Service Activity in Khorassan, 1887–1908

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-675
Author(s):  
L. P. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Secret Service ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Great Game

When great powers quarrel their lesser neighbours are often worst affected. Cajoled and wooed, they are drawn into conflicts they would prefer to avoid. Such involvement may exacerbate internal weaknesses and end by damaging them long after the causes of the original dispute have faded. Nineteenth-century Iran became drawn into Anglo-Russian rivalries in Central Asia as each sought to secure her assistance. Spectators of the so-called ‘Great Game’ were not allowed: the boxes were part of the field of play.

China and Central Asia: a new Great Game or traditional vassal relations?

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (45) ◽  
pp. 569-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKLAS SWANSTRÖM*
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Great Game

scholarly journals A Great Game in Greater Central Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-243
Author(s):  
M. H. Glantz
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Aral Sea ◽  
Aral Sea Basin ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
Great Game ◽  
Central Asian Republics

The region historically referred to as Soviet Central Asia includes the 5 Central Asian Republics (CARs) of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Their political status changed drastically when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and they became independent republics. Since the early 1990s, Central Asian leaders have referred on occasion to neighboring Afghanistan as the sixth CAR. In fact, it does occupy 14% of the Aral Sea Basin and its mountains supply about 15% of streamflow to the region’s mighty Amu Darya River that used to flow into Central Asia’s Aral Sea.

scholarly journals Great Game in Central Asia: Causes and Consequences

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Ali Muhammad Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Great Game

US aims to check Russia in Central Asia 'Great Game'

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Great Game ◽  
Public Criticism

Subject US relations with Central Asia. Significance US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Central Asia in early November, in an effort to boost Washington's influence in a region that is increasingly dominated by Russia and also China. Central Asian states worry that the region has declined in importance for the United States, owing to Washington's overall drawdown of forces in Afghanistan. Impacts Over-reliance on remittances will pose major risk to Central Asian economies. Central Asian states will continue to try and extract concessions from United States, Russia and China. Washington will diminish its public criticism of human rights abuses in Central Asia but maintain pressure in private.

The Great Game evolves for Central Asia and opportunities beckon

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1224-1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Great Game
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