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Zbigniew Brzezinski, a relentless critic of the Nixon-Kissinger approach to national security decision-making, wrote in July of 1973,
Richard Nixon … has perceived more sharply than many of his contemporaries — certainly more clearly than his rivals — the nature of the changed circumstances in which America finds herself. He sees — in part correctly — his foreign policy as a realistic response to worldwide and domestic changes … Nixon — though obviously the beneficiary of able advice from his Special Assistant — is to a greater extent the conceptual architect of his Administration’s policy … (a point rarely conceded by his critics, who prefer to deny Nixon any credit.)1
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Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era. (New York: The Viking Press, 1970), pp. 54, 275.
Brzezinski, Ideology and Power in Soviet Politics, (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962) pp. 112–13; Revised edn, pp. 146–47. The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict, revised edn (New York: Praeger, 1961) p. 391; Revised and enlarged edn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967), p. 493.
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel P. Huntington, Political Power: USA/USSR (New York: The Viking Press, 1964), p. 409.
Brzezinski, “Recognizing The Crisis,” Foreign Policy 17 (Winter 1974–75):65–66.
Brzezinski, “Half Past Nixon,” Foreign Policy 3 (Summer 1971):12, 24. “The Degeneration of Peace,” p. 36.
Brzezinski and Huntington, Political Power: USA/USSR, pp. 436, 430. Specifically, he argued that the structure of power, the access to leadership, the role of ideology, and the relationship of the political system to the individual are not likely to undergo a radical change in either system. Brzezinski (ed.), Dilemmas of Change in Soviet Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), p. 1.
Brzezinski, Between Two Ages, p. 144, see his footnote. Alternative to Partition, pp. 145, 172. E. Modrzhinskaya, “Anti-Communism Disguised as Evolutionism,” International Affairs 1 (Moscow, 1969), p. 16. The Soviets also viewed Walt Rostow’s theory of stages in economic growth and Raymond Aron’s doctrine of the single industrial society as efforts to subvert the ideological foundations of Soviet power.
Brzezinski, “What Kind of Détente?” The Atlantic Community Quarterly 13 (Fall 1975):289–90. “The Deceptive Structure of Peace,” pp. 41–45. In 1974 he stressed the Soviets’ justification of severe restrictions of human rights by proclaiming domestically that the ideological conflict must go on unabated.
Brzezinski, “China’s New Diplomacy,” Problems of Communism 20 (November–December 1971), pp. 25–26.
Brzezinski, “Purpose and Planning in Foreign Policy,” Public Interest 14 (Winter 1969):59. Discussing “the importance of forecasting” in foreign policy he stated: “Policy-planning has to involve, to an important extent, the anticipation of future events. It thus has to rely on a reasonably accurate estimate of likely developments…”
Ibid., p. 73. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: 1961), p. 211.
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Andrianopoulos, G.A. (1991). The Philosophical Beliefs of Zbigniew Brzezinski. In: Kissinger and Brzezinski. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21741-0_3
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