Zitate von Zbigniew Brzeziński
Zbigniew Brzeziński
Geburtstag: 28. März 1928
Todesdatum: 26. Mai 2017
Andere Namen:Збигнев Бжезинский
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [bʐɛˈʑĩski] war ein polnisch-US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler. Er war von 1966 bis 1968 Berater Lyndon B. Johnsons und von 1977 bis 1981 Sicherheitsberater von US-Präsident Jimmy Carter. Er war Professor für US-amerikanische Außenpolitik an der School of Advanced International Studies der Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., Berater am „Zentrum für Strategische und Internationale Studien“ in Washington, D.C. und Autor renommierter politischer Analysen. Daneben betätigte er sich als Berater für mehrere große US-amerikanische und internationale Unternehmen.
Brzeziński wird zur realistischen Schule der Internationalen Politik gerechnet und stand geopolitisch in der Tradition Halford Mackinders und Nicholas J. Spykmans. Parteipolitisch stand er eher den Demokraten nahe. Er wurde oft gegen seinen konservativen „Rivalen“ Kissinger abgegrenzt, obwohl die Gemeinsamkeiten größer sind als die Unterschiede. Brzeziński wurde ein konsequenter Unilateralismus zugeschrieben. Hinsichtlich dieses Unilateralismus wird Brzeziński mit folgenden Theoretikern verglichen: Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Charles Krauthammer, Edward Luttwak, Samuel Phillips Huntington und Paul Wolfowitz.
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„History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The New York Times, January 18, 1981 Quotation of the Day http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/nyregion/quotation-of-the-day-227621.html?scp=28&sq=Brzezinski&st=nyt.
„In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Grand Chessboard (1997), Conclusion, p. 209.
„Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Grand Chessboard (1997), Conclusion, p. 211.
„…foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
Address to the New American Strategies Conference, (October 28, 2003).
„[President George W. Bush] has a vision which can be described with two other words: Manichaean paranoia… the notion that he is leading the forces of good against the empire of evil, that in that setting, the fact that we are morally superior justifies us committing immoral acts. And that is a very dangerous posture for the country that is the number one global power. … The fact is he squandered our credibility, our legitimacy, and even respect for our power.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (March 14, 2007).
„Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 1, Hegemony Of A New Type, p. 9.
„The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 1, Hegemony Of A New Type, p. 25.
„This will require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, more arms aid, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our non-proliferation policy.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
Memo to President Carter following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979).
„You have to ask yourself, 'What was the desire of the people who, after more than 40 years of Soviet oppression, became free?' They didn’t want to be pawns between a residual West that ended somewhere on the borders of the old West Germany and a resurgent Russia. They wanted to be part of the democratic West and, eventually, of the European Union. Those are perfectly legitimate aspirations. This is no threat to Russia –- except to those Russians who cannot conceive of Russia as anything else but a dominant empire that rules not only over the Russian people but over those adjoining Russian territory.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
Interview in The Huffington Post - NATO Should Stop Putin From Restoring Czarist Empire, Zbigniew Brzezinski Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/03/zbigniew-brzezinski-nato-putin-ukraine_n_5760068.html (September 3, 2014). Commenting on criticisms of NATO expansion to Eastern Europe.
„The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 35.
„Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 4, The Black Hole, p. 118.
„For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia.“
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 30.
