History What is meant by the concept of the “Great Game”, ie “the Great Game”? It occurs here and there in the books of the 1800 century European imperialism.
“The Great Game” is, as the name suggests, a British term. It was never official, but was used by politicians, diplomats and spies during much of the 1800s before the early 1900s, became more widely known thanks to Rudyard Kipling’s novels. The term refers to the struggle between Britain and Russia in Asia’s landlocked, from Iran in the west to China in the east. Russians and Brits competed for influence in Central Asia and Afghanistan, and many of today’s political borders in Asia’s inland are indirect results of the power game. The Russians were advancing from the north and subdued current Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, while the British expanded from India towards Nepal, Tibet and Afghanistan.
It is often expected that the “great game” ended in 1907, in conjunction with an alliance treaty between Britain and Russia, but in practice the two powers continued to intrigue and skulk on each other for decades. In the postwar period slipped “the big game” of the Cold War, the struggle for influence in the old buffer of Afghanistan as perfect examples of how 1800s objectives was inherited by later-day superpower leaders. Anyone who wishes can easily interpret today’s rivalry for control over territories, military bases and Natural Resources in Central Asia as a continuation of “the big game”.
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