"The Oil and Glory"

Published: Nov. 1, 2007, 11 p.m.

b'levine event posterA talk by journalist and author Steven LeVine. Pipeline politics became a modern day version of the 19th Century\'s Great Game, in which Britain and Russia had employed cunning and bluff to gain supremacy over the lands of the Caucasus and Central Asia. \\u201cThe Oil and Glory\\u201d is the story of how, at the dawn of the 21st century, the game was played once more across the harsh environs of the Caspian Sea. Co-sponsor: Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.'