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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew "Zbig" Kazimierz Brzeziński was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. As a scholar, Brzeziński belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman, while…
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science · Polish-American diplomat and political scientist (1928–2017) · geopolitical analyst · political scientist · pedagogue · university teacher · author · strategist · critic · film actor · politician · scientist · also Zbigniew Brzezinski, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, Zbig, Brzezinski
Born 28 March 1928 · Died 26 May 2017 · Q168041
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Zbigniew Brzezinski
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2025· 1 entry
Cfr.org: Zbigniew Brzezinski, With Edward Luce
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2024· 1 entry
The Washington Post rated the claim ““Well, then in ’97, Zbigniew Brzezinski, he was the first of the neocons, said, ‘We’re going to move NATO a thousand miles to the east and take 15 countries into it and surround the Soviet Union.’”” False.
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2022· 1 entry
Agreed that "the original provision was certainly inadequate to force a Soviet armed intervention
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2019· 1 entry
VOA rated the claim ““The Alliance [NATO] frankly follows the precepts of Brzezinski: ‘The twenty-first century will be built at the expense of Russia, on the ruins of Russia and against Russia’.”” False.
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2017· 5 entries
Channel 3000: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, dies at 89
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Died 2017-05-26.
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Sent out his final Tweet, saying, "Sophisticated US leadership is the sine qua non of a stable world order
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“This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world.”
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Was a little more than 50% and that when the end did come it would be "most likely turbulent"
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2016· 2 entries
Brzeziński warned of "coming turmoil in the nation and the world" in a brief speech after he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Public Service from the Department of Defense
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Justin Vaïsse referred to "[t]he thesis according to which a trap was set having been dismissed" as "[s]uch a position would not be compatible with the archives"
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma” in Cell — cited 2,719 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Between the February 22 ousting of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych and the March 16, Crimean referendum, Brzeziński authored an op-ed piece for The Washington Post entitled "What is to be done
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2011· 2 entries
The American Spectator: Has Zbigniew Brzezinski Lost It?
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Brzeziński supported the NATO intervention against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan Civil War, calling non-intervention "morally dubious" and "politically questionable"
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2009· 1 entry
Brzeziński delivered the Waldo Family Lecture on International Relations at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd class (2008).
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2007· 4 entries
Brzeziński along with other influential signatories sent a letter to President George W
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2007).
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Awarded Order of the Three Stars, 2nd Class (2007).
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In a column in The Washington Post, Brzeziński excoriated the Bush administration, arguing that their post-9/11 actions had damaged the reputation of the United States "infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained
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2006· 1 entry
Defended John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt after their arguments about the Israel lobby attracted intense criticism
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2004· 4 entries
PBS: Zbigniew Brzezinski At Large, Part Two
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PBS: Zbigniew Brzezinski At Large, Part One
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Brzeziński wrote The Choice, which expanded upon his earlier work,The Grand Chessboard (1997), and sharply criticized George W
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That "[c]ontemporary memos—particularly those written in the first days after the Soviet invasion—make clear that while Brzeziński was determined to confront the Soviets in Afghanistan through covert action, he was also
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Vilnius (2003).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Cross of the President of the Slovak Republic, 2nd Class presented by Rudolf Schuster (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Kraków (2001).
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Awarded Order of Stara Planina (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Comenius University (2000).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (2000).
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1998· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class (1998).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1998).
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That "Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire
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(which was "repeatedly den[ied]" by Brzeziński himself), "and the circumstantial fact that U
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1997· 1 entry
Advocated for a "loosely confederated Russia — composed of a European Russia, a Siberian Republic, and a Far Eastern Republic" as a "decentralized Russia would be less susceptible to imperial mobilization"
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit, 1st class (1996).
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic) (1995).
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That American officials had never made Afghanistan's strategic significance clear to their Soviet counterparts prior to December 1979, speculating—in line with the "Afghan Trap" theory—that this omission may have been de
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Lublin (1990).
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Brzeziński warned against post–Cold War euphoria
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1989· 2 entries
The Communists failed to mobilize support in Poland, and Solidarity swept the general elections
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Precipitating the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself
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1988· 1 entry
Brzeziński was co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force, endorsing Bush for president, and breaking with the Democratic party
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1985· 1 entry
Under the Reagan administration, Brzeziński served as a member of the President's Chemical Warfare Commission
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1981· 3 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Jimmy Carter (1981).
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And more so of the Western European acquiescence to its imposition in the name of stability
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President Carter presented Brzeziński with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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1980· 1 entry
The Carter administration set sight on confronting Ronald Reagan on arms control agreements with Moscow
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1979· 6 entries
Brzeziński was awakened at 3 am by a phone call with a startling message: The Soviets had just launched 250 nuclear weapons at the United States
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Brzeziński made a speech at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations where he stated that competition between the two powers and the nuclear arms race would not simply end because of the accord
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Had advanced Soviet power towards the Persian Gulf
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The Soviets intervened in the Second Yemenite War
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Had foreshadowed the emergence of Solidarity) warning him in advance
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But Carter ignored them until the Soviet intervention destroyed his illusions
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1978· 3 entries
That the two governments would establish diplomatic relations on January 1, 1979
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To engage the People's Republic of China and traveled to Beijing to lay the groundwork for the normalization of relations between the two countries
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For example, Brzeziński traveled to Beijing to lay the groundwork for normalizing U
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1977· 2 entries
President Carter again reaffirmed the United States' position of upholding the Shanghai Communiqué
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Career landmark: United States National Security Advisor (1977–1981).
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1976· 2 entries
Carter made Brzeziński National Security Advisor
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“Opis: wypowiedziane w 1976.”
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1974· 1 entry
Brzeziński selected Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter as a member
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1973· 1 entry
As the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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1968· 1 entry
Brzeziński resigned from the council in protest of President Johnson's expansion of the war
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1966· 1 entry
Brzeziński was appointed to the Policy Planning Council of the U
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1964· 1 entry
Brzeziński supported Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and the Great Society and civil rights policies, while on the other hand he saw Soviet leadership as having been purged of any creativity following the ousting
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1962· 1 entry
“not splitting and is not likely to split.”
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
To Henry Kissinger instead of to him, Brzeziński moved to New York City to teach at Columbia University
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1957· 1 entry
Visited Poland for the first time since he left as a child, and his visit reaffirmed his judgement that splits within the Eastern bloc were profound
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1956· 1 entry
Lent some support to Brzeziński's idea that the Eastern Europeans could gradually counter Soviet domination
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1953· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard Law School (1950–1953).
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1950· 1 entry
Studied at McGill University (1945–1950).
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1945· 1 entry
To obtain both his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees (received in 1949 and 1950 respectively)
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1939· 1 entry
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was agreed to by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union; subsequently the two powers and Slovakia invaded Poland
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1938· 2 entries
And characterized Putin as a cartoon Benito Mussolini, but stopped well short of advocating that the U
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Tadeusz Brzeziński was posted to Montreal as a consul general
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1928· 3 entries
Born 1928-03-28.
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Into a Roman Catholic szlachta family bearing the Trąby coat of arms, originally from Brzeżany, Tarnopol Voivodeship (then part of Poland, currently in Ukraine)
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“s end. He remained involved in Polish affairs, critical of the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, and more so of the Western European acquiescence to its imposition in the name of stability. Brzeziński briefed U.S. vice president George H. W. Bush before his 1987 trip to Poland that aided in the revival of the Solidarity movement. In 1985, under the Reagan administration, Brzeziński served as a member of the President”
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