Abstract
Images of a new Great Game have caught the imagination of commentators on Central Asia and the Transcaucasus following the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Rudyard Kipling had originally coined the term. when referring to rivalry in Central Asia between Britain and Tsarist Russia. This chapter examines whether there is a new Great Game in the Transcaucasus. Such a Great Game would be based to a large extent on pipeline politics. The Transcaucasus refers specifically to the territory of three states, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. These states have links with post-Soviet Central Asia and with the republics of the northern Caucasus which form the southernmost portion of the Russian Federation. Many in Moscow are thus sensitive about developments in the Transcaucasus.
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Winrow, G.M. (2000). A New Great Game in the Transcaucasus?. In: Kalyuzhnova, Y., Lynch, D. (eds) The Euro-Asian World. Euro-Asian Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981504_3
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