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Strategic vision America and the crisis of global power

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 a...

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Main Author: Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Basic Books, c2012.
Subjects:
Balance of power > Forecasting.
International relations > History > 21st century > Forecasting.
World politics > 21st century > Forecasting.
Geopolitics > History > 21st century > Forecasting.
United States > Foreign relations > 21st century > Forecasting.
Summary: 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.--Publisher description.
Physical Description: viii, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-196) and index.
ISBN: 9780465029549 (hbk.)
046502954X (hbk.)
9780465029556 (ebk.)
0465029558 (ebk.)
Author Notes: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland on March 28, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a master's degree in 1950 from McGill University in Montreal and a doctorate in political science in 1953 from Harvard University. He was the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter during the years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s.

He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Ideology and Power in Soviet Politics, Power and Principle, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, and Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. He was also a professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a frequent expert commentator on PBS and ABC News. He died on May 26, 2017 at the age of 89.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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