The ‘Great Game’ in the Levant
By: Semih Idiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse. Posted on April 5.
With billions of cubic meters in estimated gas reserves, the Eastern Mediterranean, or the “Levant Basin” by another name, is turning into the stage for a contemporary version of the 19th Century “Great Game,” which has as much potential for catalyzing peace, as it does for contributing to new tensions in a region already rife with conflict.
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