Strategic Vision, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Strategic Vision, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Strategic Vision
America and the Crisis of Global Power

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2012

Synopsis

In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerable—to domestic and international decline and unregulated greed.
 
 Speaking from decades of experience, Brzezinski considers the implications of the changing distribution of global power, ponders why America’s global appeal is waning, speculates on the likely geopolitical consequences if America declines by 2025 (will China assume America’s central role in world affairs?), and describes a vision of a resurgent America: responsive to challenges, strategically deliberate, and historically enlightened in its global engagement with the new East.

About Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski served as national security adviser to President Carter from 1977 to 1981. He is currently a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a number of books, including The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives and, most recently, The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish on February 16, 2016

Is American leadership necessary? This was the question I set out to answer when I began looking the analyses of foreign policy experts. One of these experts is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981). Brzezinski was instrumental in the 1978 Camp D......more

Goodreads review by Brian on November 18, 2016

There is an elite class of individuals that go beyond financial wealth. Consider billionaires like Buffet or Gates with their wimpy 70 or 80 Billion compared to Clans, Cabals and Syndicates that sit on vast resources. When a barrel of oil costs between $50 and $200 a barrel and your family controls......more

Goodreads review by Steven on September 08, 2012

Regardless of what you think of the man, this book is written with breathtaking clarity. The charts, numbers and graphs are very convincing to say the least It also provides me a bit of hope in this new geopolitical climate that USA won't go from number 1 to number 10 but will instead slide into a c......more

Goodreads review by Badr on January 18, 2012

concise and easy to follow. The main premise is that the world's future is murky if the US falls from global power. He believes that the rise of China although economically certain is politically uncertain. The future of the world depends on the US adopting a dual role. It must be the promoter and g......more

Goodreads review by Kuszma on October 15, 2019

Ez volt a legjobb XX. századi geopolitikai elemzés azok közül, amiket eddig olvastam – a sors iróniája, hogy egy olyan nevű szerző tollából, akit nem feltétlenül mernék megnevezni beszélgetés során. (Hihetetlen, micsoda feleslegük lehet a lengyeleknek mássalhangzóból! Nem akarnak velünk párat elcsel......more

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