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Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives
Key Quotes From Zbigniew Brzezinksi's Seminal 1998 Book
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"Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power."- (p. xiii)
"It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges capable of dominating
Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive
and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book.”
(p. xiv)
"How
America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates Eurasia
would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically
productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control
over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination,
rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral
to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people
live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well,
both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for
about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)
“Never before has a populist
democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is
not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden
threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The
economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice
(casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort
are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial
mobilization." (p.35)
“The momentum of Asia's
economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration
and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region
and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas
and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea."
(p.125)
"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 it is
also likely to be the very last." (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." (p. 211)
Zbigniew
Brzezinski's Background
According
to his resume, Zbigniew Brzezinski lists the following achievements:
Harvard Ph.D. in 1953
Counselor, Center for Strategic
and International Studies
Professor of American Foreign
Policy, Johns Hopkins University
National Security Advisor
to President Jimmy Carter (1977-81)
Trustee and founder of the Trilateral
Commission
International advisor of several
major US/Global corporations
Associate of Henry Kissinger
Under Ronald Reagan - member
of NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy
Under Ronald Reagan - member
of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Past member, Board of Directors,
The Council on Foreign Relations
1988 - Co-chairman of the Bush
National Security Advisory Task Force.
Brzezinski
is also a past attendee and presenter at several conferences of the Bilderberg Group - a non-partisan affiliation of the wealthiest and most powerful families
and corporations on the planet.
The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski – More Quotes
"The last decade of
the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs.
For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as
a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but also as the world's paramount
power. The defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step
in the rapid ascendance of a Western Hemisphere power, the United States,
as the sole and, indeed, the first truly global power.” (p. xiii)
"The attitude of the American
public toward the external projection of American power has been much
more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War
II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor.” (pp 24-5)
"For America, the chief
geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent
in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how
long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is
sustained.” (p.30)
"America's withdrawal from
the world or because of the sudden emergence of a successful rival - would
produce massive international instability. It would prompt global anarchy."
(p. 30)
"Two basic steps are thus
required: first, to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states
that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international
distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their
respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking
to attain them;... second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset,
co-opt, and/or control the above..." (p. 40)
"To put it in a terminology
that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three
grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and
maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant
and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together."
(p.40)
"Henceforth, the United
States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that
seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status
as a global power." (p.55)
"Uzbekistan, nationally
the most vital and the most populous of the central Asian states, represents
the major obstacle to any renewed Russian control over the region. Its
independence is critical to the survival of the other Central Asian states,
and it is the least vulnerable to Russian pressures." (p. 121)
[Referring to an area he calls
the "Eurasian Balkans" and a 1997 map in which he has circled
the exact location of the current conflict - describing it as the central
region of pending conflict for world dominance] "Moreover, they [the
Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security
and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and
more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also
signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian
Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an
enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the
region, in addition to important minerals, including gold." (p.124)
"The world's energy consumption
is bound to vastly increase over the next two or three decades. Estimates
by the U.S. Department of energy anticipate that world demand will rise
by more than 50 percent between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant
increase in consumption occurring in the Far East. The momentum of Asia's
economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration
and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region
and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas
and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea."
(p.125)
"Uzbekistan is, in fact,
the prime candidate for regional leadership in Central Asia." (p.130)
"Once pipelines to the
area have been developed, Turkmenistan's truly vast natural gas reserves
augur a prosperous future for the country's people.” (p.132)
"In fact, an Islamic revival
- already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi
Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly
pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under
Russian - and hence infidel - control." (p. 133).
"For Pakistan, the primary
interest is to gain Geostrategic depth through political influence in
Afghanistan - and to deny to Iran the exercise of such influence in Afghanistan
and Tajikistan - and to benefit eventually from any pipeline construction
linking Central Asia with the Arabian Sea." (p.139)
"Turkmenistan... has been
actively exploring the construction of a new pipeline through Afghanistan
and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea..." (p.145)
"It follows that America's
primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control
this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial
and economic access to it." (p148)
"China's growing economic
presence in the region and its political stake in the area's independence
are also congruent with America's interests." (p.149)
"America is now the only
global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what
happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be
of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical
legacy." (p.194)
"Without sustained and
directed American involvement, before long the forces of global disorder
could come to dominate the world scene. And the possibility of such a
fragmentation is inherent in the geopolitical tensions not only of today's
Eurasia but of the world more generally." (p.194)
"With warning signs on
the horizon across Europe and Asia, any successful American policy must
focus on Eurasia as a whole and be guided by a Geostrategic design."
(p.197)
"That puts a premium on
maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile
coalition that could eventually seek to challenge America's primacy."
(p. 198)
"The most immediate task
is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity
to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly
its decisive arbitration role." (p. 198)
"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."
(p. 211)
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