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Zbigniew Brzezinski

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March 28, 1928 in Warsaw, Poland

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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish, he is a foreign policy realist and considered by some to be the Democrats' response to Republican realist Henry Kissinger.

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China), the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II), the brokering of the Camp David Accords, the transition of Iran to an anti-...more

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Books by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Average rating: 3.71 · 718 ratings · 103 reviews · 28 distinct works

	The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives 3.79 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower 3.53 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	My rating:
	America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy by Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Ignatius, Brent Scowcroft 4.04 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership 3.46 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power 3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Geostrategic Triad: Living with China, Europe, Russia by Zbigniew Brzezinski, John J. Hamre (Foreword by) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Power and Principle 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Between Two Ages 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski

tags: americans , ignorance , politics , populism

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“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

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“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

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