ABSTRACT
Enduring international rivalries resemble plays by Terence Rattigan, among them The Deep Blue Sea and The Browning Version, in which the drama develops out of the unequal distribution of love. One manifestation of the Anglo-Russian rivalries was a shared search to define the boundaries – or at least locate the most distant outposts — of the rivals' two empires and to create a zone of self-denial between them. After the Second World War, the Anglo-Russian rivalries, in the sense of an activity engaging two parties, however indirectly, had come to an end. The Anglo-Russian rivalries are known as the Great Game in Asia partly because they resemble a simple formation dance – the Dashing White Sergeant rather than the Lancers – made up of four figures named the ring fence, the springboard, the revolving door and the set to the centre.
