Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower - Softcover

Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465003559 ISBN 13: 9780465003556

Publisher: Basic Books, New York, NY, 2008

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"One of the most important books on U.S. foreign policy since September 11."

"İBrzezinski's¨ analysis of East Asian realities and of the complicated U.S.-China-Japan relationship is lucid and constructive and a joy to read."

"No one understands the interdependence of power and principle better than Zbigniew Brzezinski." -- Jimmy Carter

"An indisputable road map to the current geopolitical situation, and a guide on how America must conduct herself to ensure peace and stability in the future." -- Jimmy Carter

"Brzezinski's reach is breathtaking...in a masterly fashion, he takes the reader on a trip around the world in 200 pages.... A fascinating book, and a disturbing one in the best sense of the term."

"In the furor over the war on Iraq (was it justified?), the author gets back to what the debate should be about. The polemicists on both sides of this argument would be well advised to heed Mr. Brzezinski."

"The Grand Chessboard is the book we have been waiting for: a clear-eyed, tough-minded, definitive exposition of America's strategic interests in the Post-Cold War world. A masterful synthesis of historical, geographical, and political analysis, it is geostrategic thinking in the grand tradition of Bismarck." -- Samuel P. Huntington

Synopsis:

From the most highly respected analyst of foreign policy writing today, this is a story of wasted opportunity and squandered prestige - the history of the last three U.S. presidents' foreign policy.The most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the foreign policy of America's last three presidential administrations.Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the US, having emerged from the Cold War with an unprecedented degree of power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the good intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America's future by the "suicidal statecraft" of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige, if not its former dominance.Scholarly and highly opinionated, this book is both controversial and influential.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books, New York, NY
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0465003559
• ISBN 13: 9780465003556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256