Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
We cannot leap into world government through one quick step… The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If a new president personalizes a rather different concept of America and a different sense of America's mission in the world than… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Iraq may have been a preview of that, but it's still redeemable if we get out fast. In a war with Iran,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
In the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the Euro-Atlantic community.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
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