Game Plan: A Geostrategic Framework for the Conduct of the U.S.--Soviet Contest

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Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986 - History - 288 pages

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Contents

The Struggle for Eurasia
30
Peripheral Zones of Special Vulnerability
76
A Threat Assessment
99
Copyright

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About the author (1986)

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland on March 28, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a master's degree in 1950 from McGill University in Montreal and a doctorate in political science in 1953 from Harvard University. He was the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter during the years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Ideology and Power in Soviet Politics, Power and Principle, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, and Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. He was also a professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a frequent expert commentator on PBS and ABC News. He died on May 26, 2017 at the age of 89.

Bibliographic information

TitleGame Plan: A Geostrategic Framework for the Conduct of the U.S.--Soviet Contest
AuthorZbigniew Brzezinski
Editionillustrated
PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press, 1986
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized17 Sep 2008
ISBN087113084X, 9780871130846
Length288 pages
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