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The crucial fault lines may seem familiar, but the implosion of the soviet union has created new rivalries and new relationships, and brzezinski maps out the. The former national security advisor is still a believer in geopolitics after all these years. The task facing the united states, he argues, is to become the sole political arbiter in eurasian lands and to prevent the emergence of any rival power threatening our material and diplomatic interests. Written from the perspective of the person of influence and a part of the american political elite, it presents america as the hegemon of the world power and positively assesses its drive to control other nations. The first biography of the influential national security adviser and strategic thinker whose ideas have helped shape american foreign policy for five decades drawing on exclusive access to.
Samuel huntington, harvard university, author of the clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order about this title may belong to another edition of this title. Zbigniew brzezinski on the afghan war and the grand. Lo and behold, brzezinski himself advocated taking over ukraine in his 1998 book, the grand chessboard, stating ukraine was a new and important space on the eurasian chessboarda geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country means russia ceases to be a eurasian empire. Like most foreignpolicy aficionados weaned on the cold war, brzezinski out of control, 1993 has been forced by the disintegration of the soviet union to broaden his perspectivebut not very far. Samuel huntington, harvard university, author of the clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order.
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