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Opinion&Analysis
ThenewGreatGamethatisnot,FilippoCostaBuranelli
foritspart,isslowlyresumingreligioustieswiththeregion,inparticularwith
Uzbekistan,afterPresidentsRouhaniandMirziyoyevmetonthesidesofthemeet-
ingoftheOrganisationofIslamicCountriesinSeptember2017inAstana,Kazakh-
stan.IndiaandPakistan,conversely,arelookingfor
Ratherthanblunt
investmentsandco-operationinthefieldsoftrans
-
competitionand
portation,energyandwaterresources.
adversarialpolitics,
Crucially,thepluralityofactorsinteractsandop-
eratesintheregionwithdińerentsetsofgoalsand
relationsbetween
withoutelicitingstrongcompetitionoroverlyhostile
CentralAsianstates
dynamics.Terefore,ratherthanbluntcompetition
andthegreatpowers
andadversarialpolitics,relationsbetweenCentral
Asianandgreatpowersarebestdescribedastactical
arebestdescribedas
partnershipswithdińerentnormativetemplates,new
tacticalpartnerships.
platformsforco-operation,andevolvingstructures
fordialogue.
Tus,theuseoftheGreatGamenarrativeinrelationtoCentralAsiaisagame
initself.AstheFrenchphilosopherPaulRicoeuroncesaid:uTekeytometaphor
istheperceptionofaresemblancebetweentwoideas.”Yetthemetaphorofthe
newGreatGame,ratherthanfaithfullyrepresenting,clarifyingandresembling
thecomplexregionaldynamicsofCentralAsia,obscuresthemliketheworstof
clichés.
FilippoCostaBuranelliisalecturerininternationalrelationsat
UniversityofStAndrewsspecialisinginCentralAsia.
