The idea of the “Great Game” is rooted in a 19th-century clash of empires. The mighty powers of Russia and Britain exerted their rivalry across an expanse of Eurasia, stretching from the ...

But this is the time for concerted action. Russia and China have already made their opening moves. The United States, following a line from Rudyard Kipling’s 1901 book, Kim, set against the backdrop ...

What is more surprising is that a great power — Japan — emerged in recent times within East Asia to challenge China, and indeed become one of the world’s preeminent powers.

Central Asia’s most populous nation has been the center of great-power attention of late, underscored by an “ unprecedented level ” of diplomatic contacts with the United States, the hosting of a ...

In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his pathbreaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century ...

Asia has been hit by over 20 earthquakes above a 2.5 magnitude in the last 24 hours, with four powerful ones in central and southeast Asia, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

TNSR Managing Editor Rick Landgraf talks with Charles Ziegler about his latest article, Filling the Void Left by Great-Power Retrenchment: Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from ...

Adventurous hikers now have access to see a different side of Kyrgyzstan.The Kyrgyz Nomad Trail (KNT) is a 1,243-mile (2,000-kilometer) long-distance hiking trail in northern and eastern ...

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. 'Painting the map' has a bad name among some players, becoming synonymous with the kind of strategy ...

Archaeologists Map Two Forgotten Medieval Cities That Flourished Along the Silk Road in the Mountains of Central Asia The new research could change history’s understanding of the sprawling trade ...

The islands of the Pacific offer a striking example of what the Lowy Institute, an Australian think tank, branded in a report last week as the new “great game” between China and the United States.