Great Game On

The contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy

Geoff Raby
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Great Game On

Published

12 November 2024

ISBN

9780522879667

Pages

240

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

Great Game On

The contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy

Geoff Raby
Exploring the Eurasian power shift
Great Game On is the story of the remaking of the world order Historically, China has sought its security by building dominant relationships with pliant states that accept its pre-eminence. Its expanding role and influence in Central Asia has been as incremental and piecemeal as it has been deliberate. Without firing a shot, China could potentially end the United States' international primacy to become the most consequential global power. With its emergence as the leading power in Eurasia based on its inexorable economic rise and Putin's folly in Ukraine, China has been released from its past existential anxieties about land-based threats from Eurasia. It now has the chance to project its power globally, as the US did from the early twentieth century when it became the dominant power in the western hemisphere. What threats and risks must China address? And what happens when China becomes the established, stable, dominant power…
Great Game On is the story of the remaking of the world order. Historically, China has sought its security by building dominant relationships with pliant states that accept its pre-eminence. Its expanding role and influence in Central Asia has been as incremental and piecemeal as it has been deliberate. Without firing a shot, China could potentially end the United States' international primacy to become the most consequential global power. With its emergence as the leading power in Eurasia based on its inexorable economic rise and Putin's folly in Ukraine, China has been released from its past existential anxieties about land-based threats from Eurasia. It now has the chance to project its power globally, as the US did from the early twentieth century when it became the dominant power in the western hemisphere. What threats and risks must China address? And what happens when China becomes the established, stable, dominant power in Eurasia? Australia's former ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, takes the reader on a journey across Eurasia to understand the forces shaping its geopolitics. Raby enriches this analysis by weaving his own travel stories, experiences and adventures into the fabric of his narrative. This book is geopolitics on a grand canvas, written from the ground up.

A seriously informed study of the major players in these “interesting” times.”
The Age

For those who need to make educated guesses about what will actually happen in the region, Raby provides a game board that is likely more useful than relying on the all-too-common sound bites.”
Peter Gordon, Asian Review of Books

Great Game On is a globally significant book because it places the China-Russia relationship in its global geopolitical context.”
Michael Wesley, Deputy Vice Chancellor Global, Culture and Engagement at the University of Melbourne

Geoff Raby

Geoff Raby

Geoff Raby was Australia’s ambassador to China (2007–11); ambassador to APEC (2003–05); and ambassador to the World Trade Organization (1998–2001). Since leaving government service he has been a regular columnist on China and Eurasia for The Australian Financial Review, travel writer and a non-executive, independent company director. His last book was China’s Grand Strategy (MUP, 2020). Raby was awarded the Order of Australia in 2019 for services to Australia–China relations and international trade.

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