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Oil and Geopolitics are entwined. No other natural resource is more pertinent in shaping global geopolitics as Oil has been, and no any other region has been more instrumental in shaping geopolitical great game for oil as the West Asia has been. Despite the fact that the region constantly remains to be politically volatile, the global oil supply remains to be highly dependent on West Asia, and if various projections are to be believed the region would continue to dominate the global oil production in the foreseeable future. West Asia holds central place in Spykman’s schema of Rimland and subsequent American policies. During the Cold War period West Asia remained to be one of the major chessboards for the great game being played between the USA and Soviet Union. Although post-Cold War nature of oil geopolitics has become more complicated, its significance for major state and non-state actors has magnified than dwindled.
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