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 Second ChanceThree Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpowerby Zbigniew Brzezinski Mar 5, 2007
DescriptionAmerica’s most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations’ foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America’s future by the “suicidal statecraft” of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential. Reviews...The author writes with a keen understanding of the ways in which military or political actions in one part of the world can affect developments in another region... It goes against the grain of much commentary confined within the parameters of established US thinking on the subject. Brzezinski has described the challenge of future American leadership with unusual clarity. In his engaging and briskly argued new book, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser sees little worth emulating in the past 15 years of U.S. foreign policy... What Second Chance does offer is a wise insight that should guide any effort to fashion a strategy to restore American leadership. Brilliantly provocative Selling TerritoryWorld |
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