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The Talap Center for Applied Research recently called Central Asia an “opportunity zone”, a sterile euphemism for the modern great game playing out in the steppe. However, since the Great Game of the 1800s, the Central Asian nations have become players in their own right, and now economics is defining the terms of the current superpower competition. Following on from our February report on Kazakhstan’s domestic politics, this report examines the country’s role as an up-and-coming geostrategic player on the new silk road.
