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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzeziński
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“Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity”
Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be resentful of the loss of their recent independence and would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Perhaps the highest compliment that the world pays to the centrality of the democratic process in American global hegemony is the degree to which foreign countries are themselves drawn into the domestic American political bargaining. To the extent that they can, foreign governments strive to mobilize those Americans with whom they share a special ethnic or religious identity. Most foreign governments also employ American lobbyists to advance their case, especially in Congress, in addition to approximately one thousand special foreign interest groups registered as active in America’s capital. American ethnic communities also strive to influence U.S. foreign policy, with the Jewish, Greek, and Armenian lobbies standing out as the most effectively organized”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. Its fate confirmed a scholar’s apt observation that [e]mpires are inherently politically unstable because subordinate units almost always prefer greater autonomy, and counter-elites in such units almost always act, upon opportunity, to obtain greater autonomy. In this sense, empires do not fall; rather, they fall apart, usually very slowly, though sometimes remarkably quickly.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“This remarkable economic dynamism was fostered by a culture that favored experimentation and innovation. America’s political institutions and free market economy created unprecedented opportunities for ambitious and iconoclastic inventors, who were not inhibited from pursuing their personal dreams by archaic privileges or rigid social hierarchies. In brief, national culture was uniquely congenial to economic growth, and by attracting and quickly assimilating the most talented individuals from abroad, the culture also facilitated the expansion of national power.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Russian commentators welcomed this development, viewing it as a positive shift in the global correlation of power and as an appropriate response to America’s sponsorship of NATO’s expansion. Some even sounded gleeful that the Sino-Russian alliance would give America its deserved comeuppance. However, a coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as its access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location and from the consequences of their potentially vulnerable condition for the behavior of geostrategic players.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
“«La firme posición que ocupa Ucrania en Europa no puede ser cuestionada por nadie (…) Nunca más se podrá discutir la independencia y la integridad territorial de Ucrania». Los decisores políticos estadounidense describieron también la relación entre Estados Unidos y Ucrania como una «asociación estratégica»”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La determinación de Ucrania de preservar su independencia recibió apoyo externo. Aunque inicialmente Occidente”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La televisión y las emisiones de radio rusas en los países extranjeros cercanos deberían garantizarse”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“El objetivo principal de la política de Rusia hacia la CEI es crear una asociación de Estados económica y políticamente integrados capaz de reivindicar su propio lugar en la comunidad mundial (…) consolidar a Rusia como la fuerza principal en la formación de un nuevo sistema de relaciones políticas y económicas interestatales en el territorio del espacio postsoviético.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“El «espacio económico común» del cual los nuevos líderes rusos hablaban a menudo”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“A la debilidad política de la nueva élite democrática se sumó la crisis a gran escala de la economía rusa. La necesidad de emprender grandes reformas —para apartar de la economía al Estado ruso— generó unas expectativas excesivas con respecto a la ayuda occidental”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“Cuando los estadounidenses lanzaron el eslogan de «la asociación estratégica madura» entre Washington y Moscú”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“la historia nos ha enseñado que un pueblo que domina a otros no puede ser afortunado.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“«Al abandonar el mesianismo pusimos rumbo hacia el pragmatismo (…) entendimos pronto que la geopolítica (…) está reemplazando a la ideología»[14].”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La pérdida de Ucrania no sólo fue fundamental desde el punto de vista geopolítico sino que también fue geopolíticamente catalítica.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“El espacio en el que durante varios siglos estuvo instalado el imperio de los zares y durante tres cuartos de siglo una Unión Soviética dominada por Rusia pasó a ser ocupado por una docena de Estados que”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La tarea a largo plazo está aún por hacer y consiste en cómo impulsar la transformación democrática y la recuperación económica de Rusia impidiendo”
Zbigniew Brzeziński, El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives

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