[lit-ideas] Gettin' Ziggy Wid It

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Zbigniew Brzezinski while serving as National Security Advisor

*Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski* (born March
28<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28>,
1928 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928>,
Warsaw<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw>,
Poland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland>) is a
Polish-American<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-American>
political
scientist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_scientist>,
geostrategist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostrategy>,
and statesman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statesman> who served as United
States National Security
Advisor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Advisor>to
President <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States> Jimmy
Carter <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter> from
1977<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977>to
1981 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981>. Known for his
hawkish<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkish> foreign
policy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy> at a time when
the Democratic
Party <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29>was
increasingly
dovish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovish>, he is a foreign policy
realist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_in_international_relations>and
considered by some to be the Democrats' response to
Republican<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29>realist
Henry
Kissinger 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger>.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski#_note-0>

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the
normalization of
relations<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-American_relations>with
the People's
Republic of China<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China>(and
the severing of ties with the Republic
of China <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China> — today's
Taiwan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan>),
the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation
Treaty<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks>(SALT
II), the brokering of the Camp
David Accords <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords>, the
transition of Iran to an anti-Western Islamic state, encouraging reform in
Eastern Europe, emphasizing human rights in U.S. foreign policy, the arming
of the mujaheddin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujaheddin> in
Afghanistan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan>to fight against
the Soviet-friendly Afghan government and later to counter
the Soviet 
invasion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Afghanistan>,
and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter
Treaties<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos-Carter_Treaties>relinquishing
U.S. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> control of the Panama
Canal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal> after
1999<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999>
.

He is currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins
University <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University>'s School
of Advanced International
Studies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_SAIS>,
a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies>,
and a member of various boards and councils. He appears frequently as an
expert on the PBS
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service>program The
NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NewsHour_with_Jim_Lehrer>
.

On Aug 24th, 2007, Brzezinski threw his support behind Barack
Obama<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>'s
presidential candidacy, saying the Illinois senator has a better global
grasp than his chief rival, Hillary
Clinton<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton>
.

Obama ``recognizes that the challenge is a new face, a new sense of
direction, a new definition of America's role in the world, *Brzezinski said
in an interview on Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital with Al Hunt.*

``Obama is clearly more effective and has the upper hand, *he said. ``He has
a sense of what is historically relevant, and what is needed from the United
States in relationship to the world.*

Brzezinski, 79, dismissed the notion that Clinton, 59, a New York senator
and the wife of former President Bill Clinton, is more seasoned than Obama,
46. ``Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president,
*Brzezinski
said.*

Clinton's foreign-policy approach is ``very conventional, *Brzezinski said.
``I don't think the country needs to go back to what we had eight years ago.
*

``There is a need for a fundamental rethinking of how we conduct world
affairs, *he added. ``And Obama seems to me to have both the guts and the
intelligence to address that issue and to change the nature of America's
relationship with the world.*

In Polish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language> his name is written
*Brzeziński* and
pronounced<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet>
['zbigɲev
bʐɛ'ʑiɲski].
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