translate English to French: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000, and the recently published volume edited by Robert Crews and Amin Tarzi, The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, 2008, op.cit. Rashid described the "new great game" of the 1990s in Part III of his book, and in his pre-9/11 conclusion on the future of Afghanistan, described it as an "orphaned" conflict:
Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000, et de l’ouvrage plus récent écrit sous la direction de Robert Crews et Amin Tarzi, The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, 2008, cité précédemment. Rashid décrit le « Grand Jeu », version années 1990, à la partie III de son étude.