Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century

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Collier Books, 1994 - 240 pagini
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As we rush toward the 21st century, former Director of the National Security Council Brzezinski takes time out to issue an "urgent warning" about the current state of global politics. He believes we are in peril of repeating the "megadeath" of this century--a century that has witnessed the slaughter of 187 million people in the name of politics.

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It is to be expected that by the year 1995 wage levels between the two formerly
divided parts of Germany will have been equalized ( naturally at West German
levels ) ... East Germany is then likely to be acclaimed as the successful example
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The role of Western aid in that transformation is bound to be much less significant
than in the case of East Germany or ... the East German population has been
obtaining would require for several years the annual transfer to Russia , which by
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Though the Cold War is over , and so are the AmericanSoviet bipolar struggle for
power and its associated East - West ... a more united Europe ; a Europe that is
united and stands entirely on its own , with America disengaged ; or Germany ?

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A brilliant and principled analysis of the perilous state of a fractious world as it approaches another millennium. Brzezinski (The Grand Failure, 1989, etc.), director of the National Security ... Citiți recenzia completă

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President Carter's former national security adviser has produced his fourth book in ten years. The last one, The Grand Failure ( LJ 4/15/89), chronicled the decline of communism. This time, Brzezinski ... Citiți recenzia completă

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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.

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TitluOut of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century
AutorZbigniew Brzezinski
EditorCollier Books, 1994
ISBN0020081154, 9780020081159
Lungime240 pagini
  
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