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The Great Game around Turkmenistan. OSW Point of View, August 2008

Jarosiewicz, Aleksandra and Falkowski, Maciej (2008) The Great Game around Turkmenistan. OSW Point of View, August 2008. UNSPECIFIED, Warsaw.

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    Abstract

    The rise of a new leader of the state of Turkmenistan – President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, who became ruler of the central Asian state after the 21-year rule of Saparmurad Niyazov, the self-proclaimed Turkmenbashi, who died on December 21, 2006 – has initiated changes in Turkmenistan’s political life. The new president has broken with the previous policy of self-isolation, and has directed the country towards openness to the outside world. Opportunities have thereby arisen for competitors in the ‘Great Game’, to gain political influence in Turkmenistan and access to hitherto unexploited Turkmen deposits of gas and oil. A new stage in the Great Game, which has been played for influence in Central Asia and control of access to its energy resources for many years, can thus be said to have been launched, and Turkmenistan has become the main setting for it. The major actors involved are Russia, the United States, China and the European Union.

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    Subjects for non-EU documents: Countries > Turkmenistan
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) > Point of View
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: Polish
    Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2014 14:02
    Number of Pages: 55
    Last Modified: 06 Feb 2018 10:40
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/58312

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