Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00714Q0KW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 438 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you want to 'get a glimpse behind the curtain' this is a great book. Zbigniew Brzezinski is an American patriot through-and-t Alex Croy WOW. If you want to 'get a glimpse behind the curtain' this is a great book.Zbigniew Brzezinski is an American patriot through-and-through; his love for this country is manifest in almost every sentence. He spares no criticism however. He does an excellent job 'placing' the USA in this moment in history: giving the reader a good 'sense' of where we've come from, where we are; where the world . David G said A book filled with useful facts and some new insights. But not all the answers.. This book provides new insights into world politics, power struggles and what it means to be a world leader. It is full of interesting facts and insightful diagrams. The table of relative size of empires helped expand my eurocentric history enlightening me that the Roman empire barely qualified as a world class empire and paled compared to the size of Chinese or even Persian empires. The maps. A Truly Sober View of Several Possible Futures, they are ours to craft An informed reader will be familiar with the many facts presented,but the books arrangement of these facts into forecasts of possible outcomes is remarkable.The story ends in 2012 with a lot happening in the world since then.The world's leaders would well serve their people by following the recommendations made.Sadly, it seemsg other paths ate being taken.This was a very thought provoking boo
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.. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower