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Overview

By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing tall as the only global super-power. Not only the 20th but even the 21st century seemed destined to be the American centuries. But that super-optimism did not last long. During the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, the stock market bubble and the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, as well as the financial catastrophe of 2008 jolted America – and much of the West – into a sudden recognition of its systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed. Moreover, the East was demonstrating a surprising capacity for economic growth and technological innovation. That prompted new anxiety about the future, including even about America’s status as the leading world power. This book is a response to a challenge. It argues that without an America that is economically vital, socially appealing, responsibly powerful, and capable of sustaining an intelligent foreign engagement, the geopolitical prospects for the West could become increasingly grave. The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more essential that America does not retreat into an ignorant garrison-state mentality or wallow in cultural hedonism but rather becomes more strategically deliberate and historically enlightened in its global engagement with the new East. This book seeks to answer four major questions:

1. What are the implications of the changing distribution of global power from West to East, and how is it being affected by the new reality of a politically awakened humanity?
 2. Why is America’s global appeal waning, how ominous are the symptoms of America’s domestic and international decline, and how did America waste the unique global opportunity offered by the peaceful end of the Cold War?
3. What would be the likely geopolitical consequences if America did decline by 2025, and could China then assume America’s central role in world affairs?
4. What ought to be a resurgent America’s major long-term geopolitical goals in order to shape a more vital and larger West and to engage cooperatively the emerging and dynamic new East?

America, Brzezinski argues, must define and pursue a comprehensive and long-term a geopolitical vision, a vision that is responsive to the challenges of the changing historical context. This book seeks to provide the strategic blueprint for that vision.

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Jimmy Carter's national security advisor offers an astute, elegant appraisal of the waning of America's "global appeal" and the severe consequences of the shifting of power from West to East. Despite filling the vacuum left after the fall of the Soviet Union, the West is tottering as a global superpower. Brzezinski (American Foreign Policy/Johns Hopkins Univ.; Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, 2007, etc.) looks carefully at this shifting redistribution in global power as the West recedes, making way for entrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America, seized by their own sense of political awareness. In his crisp, systematic fashion, the author begins by examining reasons for the waning U.S. influence, offering some pointed criticism: The "durability of its leadership is increasingly questioned worldwide because of the complexity of its internal and external challenges"; its magical twin motivations of idealism and materialism are no longer viable; its own house is in disrepair; and its populace is self-deluded and, frankly, ignorant about the rest of the world. Weakened further by its unwarranted aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. is now seen as a negative influence, arousing animus worldwide. Meanwhile, the sun is rising in the East, and Brzezinski looks at growth in China, Japan, Turkey, Russia, India and others--though the author concludes that most are plagued by too many problems to become world leaders by 2025. Other hotspots make up the "geopolitically most endangered states," such as Georgia, Taiwan, South Korea, Belarus, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Israel. Ultimately, Brzezinski provides a powerful cautionary tale: By harnessing its overall strengths in terms of economic, social and political ranking, superiority of higher education, rich natural resources and population resiliency, America can indeed "rise to the occasion." An urgent call for "historic renewal" by one of America's sharpest minds.
Michiko Kakutani
…in his provocative new book…[Brzezinski] provides a clear-eyed, sharp-tongued assessment of this hinge moment in time, when the world's center of gravity is shifting "from the West to the East"…Mr. Brzezinski does a cogent job here of situating America's relationships with other countries in a geopolitical and historical context. And he uses his expertise in these areas to draw a harrowing portrait of what the world might look like without a re-energized and strategic-minded United States on the global stage.
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“A clear-eyed, sharp-tongued assessment of this hinge moment in time.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780465029549
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication date: 1/24/2012
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 14,617
  • Product dimensions: 6.36 (w) x 9.74 (h) x 0.85 (d)

Meet the Author

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski, formerly President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, is a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His many books include the New York Times bestseller Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower; The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership; and The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperative. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Figures vii

Introduction 1

Part 1 The Receding West 7

1 The Emergence of Global Power 8

2 The Rise of Asia and the Dispersal of Global Power 16

3 The Impact of Global Political Awakening 26

Part 2 The Waning of the American Dream 37

1 The Shared American Dream 37

2 Beyond Self-Delusion 46

3 America's Residual Strengths 55

4 America's Long Imperial War 64

Part 3 The World After America: By 2025, not Chinese but Chaotic 75

1 The Post-America Scramble 76

2 The Geopolitically Most Endangered States 89

3 The End of a Good Neighborhood 103

4 The Uncommon Global Commons 110

Part 4 Beyond 2025: A New Geopolitical Balance 121

1 Eurasia's Geopolitical Volatility 123

2 A Larger and Vital West 132

3 A Stable and Cooperative New East 155

Conclusion: America's Dual Role 183

Acknowledgments 193

Notes 195

Index 197

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 1, 2012

    Excellent insight

    It is a great book. A little text book-ish. A MUST read for anyone who really cares about the future of the US in a post Soviet 21st century world. All our presidential candidates (incumbent included) should read. Made me think a lot about some of what history we have lived through.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 11, 2012

    Somewha Somewhat redundant throughout

    Very interesting but could have been written in fifty pages

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 18, 2012

    Lots of good ideas...and unnecessary big words

    I thought that the ideas presented in Strategic Vision were very well thought out and were very good. I agree with the notion that the axis of power is shifting from the Atlantic West to the Pacific. The ebook version of this book was short, but the entire time I was reading, I felt as if the author had been given a word limit. You know the personal statements you write to get into graduate school? This book felt like the author was trying to keep it under a certain amount of words. The writing was understandable, but full of large, complex words. If the author wants people outside of policymakers to read this book, he really should consider a revision that makes it more accessible to the common man.

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