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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myths and with industrial techniques , harnessed in the name of the metamyth , making feasible the infliction of death on a scale without precedent in human history . The appearance of metamyth as a political factor has to be understood ...
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Literacy as a key instrument of political awakening was itself a by - product of the industrial revolution , which also contributed to that awakening by drastically disrupting the social environment . The industrial process created the ...
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Similarly , one senses growing awareness that some deliberate initiatives designed to enhance U.S. industrial - technological competitiveness — even if not quite tantamount to a comprehensive “ industrial policy ” —will have to be ...

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OUT OF CONTROL: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

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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 ... Citește 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 ... Citește 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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