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Stay out of the caucasus
By Wooster, Martin Morse

Publication: The American Enterprise

Anatol Lieven, "The (Not So) Great Game," in The National Interest (Winter 1999/2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #540, Washington, D.C. 20036.

In the late nineteenth century, the British and Russians fought a war of intrigue in Central Asia known as the "Great Game. " Now, with nine newly independent nations occupying former Soviet territory in Central Asia and the Caucasus, some foreign policy experts suggest the U.S. should increase its diplomatic presence in the region. Lieven, of Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies, disagrees. "The importance of the Caspian region to U.S. foreign policy is greatly exaggerated."

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