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"The global cultural
transformation led by the United States could become a lonely
and destabilizing crusade without the experienced and creative counsel
imparted to our foreign policy leadership by Zbigniew
Brzezinski. I have listened to him, carefully, for
twenty-five years."
- Senator Richard G. Lugar, Chairman,
U.S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
America must make a historic
choice: will it strive to dominate the world, or lead it?
American power and a
pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the
source of its most difficult dilemmas. America's historically unprecedented
power is the ultimate source of global security, yet Americans feel less
secure than ever. Global interdependence and the widespread political
awakening of humankind promote American dominance even as they breed anti
American envy, mobilize resentment, and empower America's enemies through the
diffusion of ever more destructive technologies.
In The Choice,
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
former U.S. National Security Advisor, reminds Americans that their might
should not be confused with omnipotence. America's well being and the
world's are entwined. Panicky preoccupation with solitary American security,
an obsessively narrow focus on terrorism, and indifference to the concerns of
a politically restless humanity neither enhances American security nor comport
with the world's real need for American leadership. Unless it can harmonize
its overwhelming power with its seductive but also unsettling social appeal, America could find itself
alone and under assault in a setting of intensifying global chaos.
Brzezinski has been hailed by
Samuel P. Huntington for his "clear-eyed, tough-minded… geostrategic thinking in the grand tradition of Bismarck" and by Paul Wolfowitz as one of the world's "most penetrating
analysis of international affairs and… one of the leading practitioners of
the art of strategy." In The Choice, he identifies America's crucial strategic
imperative: America must be both guarantor
of global security and promoter of the global common good.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
is
currently a Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
and a professor of foreign policy at The Johns Hopkins University. The
National Security Advisor under President Carter, he is the author of eight
previous books, including the national bestseller The Grand Failure
and, most recently, The Grand Chessboard, which was translated into
nineteen languages. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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