Great Game On

The contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy

Geoff Raby

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
12 November 2024

History; Politics & government; Geopolitics

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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 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.

By: Geoff Raby
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 378g
ISBN: 9780522879667
ISBN 10: 0522879667
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 12 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.