The New Great Game
eBook - ePub

The New Great Game

Blood and Oil in Central Asia

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The New Great Game

Blood and Oil in Central Asia

About this book

In the tradition of The Prize, a contemporary look at the history, passion, and politics of oil and gas resources, and the struggle to control them.
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Using the concept of the "Great Game" that Rudyard Kipling immortalized in his novel Kim, Kleveman argues that there is now a new Great Game in the region, a modern variant of the nineteenth-century clash of imperial ambitions of Great Britain and Tsarist Russia. Traveling thousands of miles, from Turkmenistan (where statues of the country's leader are made of gold and line the thoroughfares) to the Afghan Hindu Kush, Kleveman met with the principal Great Game actors between Kabul and Moscow: oil barons, generals, diplomats, and warlords.
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Based on extensive research and travel in the Caucasus, the Caspian, and Central Asia, The New Great Game is a thrilling travel narrative through one of the world's last unexplored frontiers, and a savvy and incisive analysis of the power struggle for the world's remaining energy resources.
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"[Kleveman] can take credit for a book that is essential for those seeking as many views as possible on this complicated moment in history." — The Seattle Times

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Information

Publisher
Grove Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780802141729
eBook ISBN
9781555846657

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. THE DEVIL’S TEARS: AN INTRODUCTION
  7. PIPELINE POKER: BAKU’S OIL BOOM
  8. STALIN’S LEGACY: GEORGIA
  9. BANDITS AND BARONS: CHECHNYA
  10. THE BIG PIPELINE: DECISION IN THE VILLA PETROLEA
  11. THE NEW OIL DORADO: KAZAKHSTAN
  12. THE WAKING GIANT: CHINA
  13. PERSIAN TRUMP CARDS: IRAN
  14. STALIN’S DISNEYLAND: TURKMENISTAN
  15. THE YANKEES ARRIVE: UZBEKISTAN AND KYRGYZSTAN
  16. PIPE DREAMS: AFGHANISTAN
  17. THE CRADLE OF TERROR: PAKISTAN
  18. ANGRY YOUNG MEN: AN EPILOGUE
  19. POSTSCRIPT
  20. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  21. NOTES
  22. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  23. INDEX