When it comes to political science and strategy, one of the scholars in that field is Zbigniew Brzezinski. Would you like to get to know Brzezinski, who has shaped American foreign policy for a long time?
According to some, Brzezinski was one of the architects of the grand strategy that brought the Soviets to heel within a decade, by trapping the Russians in Afghanistan in 1979. However, according to another view, he "deviled" by recommending the establishment and development of organizations such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, with the support of the CIA, in order to use "Saudi-backed Wahhabi fighters against the Soviets with American weapons." In the days when he gave advice to the White House, new foundations were laid for organizations of the Al-Qaeda type, which increased the tension in the Eurasian competition with the Afghanistan war, price wars in the energy markets with oil embargoes, the Gulf War started, and today destroyed the order of the Middle East countries and disrupted their borders.
“Big Chess Table”
Henry Kissinger was Rockefeller's representative in the Republican Party, while Brzezinski was the Democratic Party man of the same interest group. Kissinger is best known for his famous work The Diplomacy, while Brzezinski is best known for his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard. (Strategic Vision, which he wrote later, is also noteworthy.) In his books, he argued that the USA should make a strong introduction to Asian geopolitics while telling how it should increase its global power in the post-Cold War unipolar new order. And for this, the comments that the USA needed a new Pearl Harbor were seen as remarkable. As you know, II. During World War II (in 1941), the Japanese Army crossed the Pacific and attacked the American military base in West America (Pearl Harbor), to convince its people for the US Government, which agreed to enter the war against Germany on the side of England in return for a share of Middle Eastern oil. it was created. On September 11, 2001, when the terrorist attacks on New York, the global financial center in the eastern region of America, triggered the revenge instincts of the American people, the US Government would once again strengthen its hand to bring American soldiers into the war overseas. Thus, with the invasion operation launched against the very center of Asian geopolitics (Afghanistan) in 2001, the USA began to settle in the power vacuum that opened in Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, through its hard power. Moreover, this time, as in Vietnam, it acted faster without further ado. The United States was able to settle in this mountainous and sea-closed region of West Asia with the support of its allies. In response to Kissinger's diplomatic engagement with Vietnam, Brzezinski would propose to Afghanistan to use "some Muslims", not American soldiers, against the Russians.
Life story
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who comes from a Catholic family who immigrated from Poland to the United States, died in May 2017 at the age of 89. Brzezinski was a Harvard graduate and was among the names representing the Rockefeller wing in the Democratic Party. From 1977 to 1981, he served as national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama was a student of Brezinski while at Columbia University.
- Born: 28.03.1928
- Died: 27.05.2017
He was born on March 28, 1928, in Poland (now Ukraine).
Zbigniew Brzezinski passed away on 27.05.2017 at the age of 89. A hospital in Virginia is dead. His daughter announced the news of Zbigniew Brzezinski's death on her Twitter account.
Zbigniew Brzezinski lived in Germany with his family from 1931-1935. Here he witnessed the rise of the Nazis at an early age.
EDUCATION LIFE
He received his high school education at Loyola High School in Montreal. He entered McGill University for his undergraduate education, where he completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies.
He prepared his master's thesis on nations in the Soviet Union.
He entered Harvard University to pursue his doctorate. His doctoral studies were on the Soviet Union, the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin.
After completing his doctorate in 1953, he went to Munich.
He worked with Carl J. Friedrich to develop the concept of totalitarianism in order to criticize the Soviet Union more strongly.
BEING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND CAREER
He lived with his family in Canada for many years and did not become a Canadian citizen despite his family living there. He became a citizen of the United States in 1958.
He moved to New York in 1959 and began teaching at Columbia University.
During the 1960 American presidential elections, he was the advisor to the campaign of John F. Kennedy, who followed a pro-opposition policy to the governments of Eastern Europe.
Brezinski became Carter's foreign policy adviser in 1975. He served as Carter's national security adviser from 1976 to 1981, following Carter's election as president.
In the last days of his presidency, Carter awarded Brzezinski the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" in 1981.
With the end of Carter's presidency, Brzezinski's term in the White House also ended.
He served on President Reagan's Chemical Warfare Commission in 1985.
PRIVATE LIFE
Brzezinski was the father of three children.
BOOKS:
- The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
- Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
- Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
- Ideology and Power in Soviet Politics:
- Political Power: USA USSR
- Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981
- Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy
- America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy