Year: 2012
Author: zbigniew brzezinski
Genre: geopolitics, history, political science, diplomacy
Publisher: Basic Book, member of the Perseus Book Group
ISBN: 978-0-465-02954-9
Series: Edition: Unabridged
English language
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: No
Number of Pages: 213

Narrarated by: Grover Gardner
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski was Carter’s National Security Advisor. His book, “Strategic Vision (2012),” identifies a key global factor, “political awakening” (“PA”). Z seems to identify “PA” as international resentment against the haves vs. the have-nots, and in particular (since the demise of the USSR) against the US:
“In its very early phases, political awakening tends to most impatient and prone to violence. Its passion is fueled by a deep sense of historically aggrieved self-righteousness.”

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