Mayorkas explained that the “Great Game” in the mid-19th century was a competition for geopolitical influence on the vast landmass of Central Asia, while the “Great Game” now is competing ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

After a three-year hiatus, India hosted the 4th meeting of the India-Central Asia Dialogue at the foreign minister level on June 6. This dialogue holds significant importance for India’s foreign ...

The great game and response - Oiseau-tempête An exchange from Oiseau-tempête in the aftermath of the 9-11 ... as groups like Al Qaeda and the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement no doubt dreamt of creating a ...

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).

Kazakhstan is the furthest along the road to cashing in on Caspian oil deposits, followed by Azerbaijan. Wallowing in misery for the past decade, the economies of both have begun to respond as oil ...