The Contest For Central Asia and Global Supremacy

Non-Fiction Forum: Words & Wine

Hosted by Peter Lamell

Great Game On: The Contest For Central Asia and Global Supremacy by Geoff Raby explores the Eurasian power shift and 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?

In his latest book, 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.

Join us at this Words & Wine Non-Fiction Forum 'book group' discussion where members share their views, ideas and perspectives with fellow readers.

🔷 Then, on 4th of June, Dr Geoff Raby AO will be speaking at a Melbourne Forum drinks event.

Here’s the full reading list for the year.