Eurasia’s Ghosts of the Great Game

..., China, and the United States—might truly clash in earnest. When it comes to genuinely serious security threats that could have devastating consequences for the fate of entire peoples, the attention of the world is fixed on Europe, South-East and North-East Asia, and, to some extent, even the Middle East—but not on the notional “Russia’s soft underbelly”—or that of China, in the case of Central Asia. Changes within these regions themselves have likewise not exerted any fundamental influence ...