Jörg Stadelbauer, A New "Great Game" in the Caspian Region?
Natural Landscape, Resource Potential and Development Problems.

Birmingham, Leicester 2000 (= The University of Birmingham, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Russian and East European Studies. University of Leicester, Departement of Geography. Russian Regional Research Group. Working Paper 20). 24 pp.

more: The break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 signaled easier access to the oil resources of the Caspian Sea basin and the opening up of those resources to international investment.