Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman.
He served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. He was known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish. He is a foreign policy realist, and considered to be the Democrats’ response to Henry Kissinger, a realist who served under President Nixon.
Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People’s Republic of China (and severing of ties with the Republic of China - today’s Taiwan), the signing of the SALT II arms control treaty, the brokering of the Camp David Accords, the transition of Iran to an anti-Western Islamic state (the “loss” of Iran), encouraging reform in Eastern Europe; emphasizing human rights in U.S. foreign policy, and arming mujaheddin in Afghanistan to fight against a new Soviet-friendly Afghan government and then to counter the Soviet invasion.
He is currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils. He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
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