
Strategic Vision
America and the Crisis of Global Power
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Grover Gardner
In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerable - to domestic and international decline, and unregulated greed.
Speaking from decades of experience, Brzezinski considers the implications of the changing distribution of global power, ponders why America’s global appeal is waning, speculates on the likely geopolitical consequences if America declines by 2025 (will China assume America’s central role in world affairs?), and describes a vision of a resurgent America: responsive to challenges, strategically deliberate, and historically enlightened in its global engagement with the new East.
©2011 Original material © 2011 Zbigniew Brzezinski. Recorded by arrangement with Basic Books ™, a division of the Perseus Books Group. (P)2011 (p) 2011 HighBridge Company.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Insightfull and imforming
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Great historical background info, disappointed it seemed a little biased on some points.
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very informative, after the partisanship
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A warning at the time, quite a lesson now.
Aged like fine wine. Incredible book.
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What did you like best about Strategic Vision? What did you like least?
It has some interesting notions and concepts regarding possible future hostilities between nations and resources.Did Grover Gardner do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
There is only one character- its a narrative of Zbigniew himself.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
No. it would be ripe with propoganda.Any additional comments?
I didnt gain any real useful information from this book. It did have some interesting commentary on historical tension and where america is likely to find itself in the future if it does not focus its attention at strategically positioning itself for continued dominance or the possibility of subservience to a growing Chinese economy.Interesting Enough
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good recap of US position in world
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Very interesting and neutral analysis
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If you could sum up Strategic Vision in three words, what would they be?
A very insightful and clear read regarding boundaries versus ethnicity mismatches in the Middle EastInsightful
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The beginning section of the book is honestly the best, most concise recap of modern world history I've ever read. I kept thinking, "so-and-so should really listen to this." The beginning of the review of the current (at the time of the writing) situation seems a bit alarmist (in hindsight). The author is certainly down on the 2 Bush presidents and the 2 wars. It gets a bit dry at the beginning of the "what if" section. Of course we hear plenty about Global Warming.
The last third of the book--along with the opening--is what saves it and makes it a 5-star. The reader will surely find his musings about the future of the Russian situation fascinating, looking back some 12 years later. The very last section is where we finally get down to strategies for the future. The book ended with me wanting more, many times is not the case by the end of a lengthy political science book.
Everyone interested in the world should read this
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Geopolitical knowledge
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