摘要：Efforts of constructing, organizing and foreseeing regions havebecome an important part of world politics. In the heart of the ongoinggeopolitical struggle in the Eurasian region lies a long-standing Russian-American rivalry over dominance in this region that involves many interestedregional actors on both sides. The source of domination of geopolitics inEurasia is twofold. Regional processes in Eurasia are strongly influenced bythe behavior of foreign actors involved there. Russia, China and the UnitedStates are the most important among them. They see each other’s behaviorand relationships through the prism of traditional “Great Game” analysis.According to the Great Game narrative, Eurasia is an important piece in astrategic confrontation among great powers for regional and globaldomination. Hence it is important to prevent other powers from dominatingEurasia. In its modern version, the control of Eurasia will also offer tocontrol side unique opportunities to define the transportation of oil and gasresources of the region. Secondly, Eurasian states themselves adopted oldbalance of power politics as the main instrument of their foreign policy. Notonly do they try to play major powers involved in Eurasia against each other,they also see themselves in obligation to balance among themselves.
关键词：Geopolitics; Great Game; Geo-strategy; Eurasian Convergence Zone;Functioning Core; Non-Integrating Gap; Energy; Pentagon’s New Map; Security
