THE NEW GREAT GAME

IN MUSLIM CENTRAL ASIA

M. E. AHRARI

with

JAMES BEAL


McNair Paper 47

January 1996


A popular Government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

JAMES MADISON to W. T. BARRY

August 4, 1822

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