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Great Games, Local Rules - The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Paperback)
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Great Games, Local Rules - The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Paperback)
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The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in
the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the
past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting
America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry
China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one
of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region
stretching from Iran through Pakistan to Kashmir. In Great Games,
Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected
international relations scholars, explores the dynamics of the new
competition for control of the region since 9/11. All three great
powers have crafted strategies to increase their power in the area,
which includes Afghanistan and the former Soviet republics of
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Each nation
is pursuing important goals: basing rights for the US, access to
natural resources for the Chinese, and increased political
influence for the Russians. However, overlooked in all of the talk
about this new great game is fact that the Central Asian
governments have proven themselves critical agents in their own
right, establishing local rules for external power involvement that
serve to fend off foreign interest. As a result, despite a decade
of intense interest from the United States, Russia, and China,
Central Asia remains a collection of segmented states, and the
external competition has merely reinforced the sovereign authority
of the individual Central Asian governments. A careful and
surprising analysis of how small states interact with great powers
in a vital region, Great Games, Local Rules greatly advances our
understanding of how global politics actually works in the
contemporary era.
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