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Strategic Vision

America and the Crisis of Global Power

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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.

©2011 Original material © 2011 Zbigniew Brzezinski. Recorded by arrangement with Basic Books ™, a division of the Perseus Books Group. (P)2011 (p) 2011 HighBridge Company. Freedom & Security Political Science Politics & Government United States World National Security Military Middle East China Iran War Imperialism Russia Soviet Union Imperial Japan Socialism Self-Determination Africa
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Great analysis of global power balances and strategies, but Zbig was being very optimistic when looking out to the future. Especially on Russia and Turkey. His grasp of eu enlargement made me lol… but I just hope it was better for the rest of the world. Soviet and China remains his forte.

Great analysis except for the EU

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