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Foreign Policy Live

Why Zbig Still Matters

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

Politics, News Commentary, News

4601 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Edward Luce is the author of a new biography on President Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet. He joins FP Live to share how this grand strategist’s legacy still shapes foreign policy today. Theodore Bunzel: Where Have All the Geostrategists Gone? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As Americans mark Independence Day this July 4th, I wanted to step away from the news cycle

0:47.2

and take a bigger picture view of how U.S. foreign policy has evolved over time. Back in 1970,

0:56.7

as America was mired in the Vietnam War,

1:04.5

Samuel Huntington founded this magazine, FP. He and his co-founder, Warren Manchall, wrote the first editor's note, proclaiming a dire need for a re-examination of the basic purposes of U.S. foreign policy.

1:12.2

Huntington and Manchel recruited a very influential founding board, including the likes of scholars

1:18.2

such as Stanley Hoffman and Joe Nye.

1:21.2

And that group of luminaries also included a certain Zbigny of Prasinski, a Polish immigrant who came to America via Canada

1:29.3

and rose to prominence as a scholar at Harvard and Columbia. Like Henry Kissinger before him,

1:35.8

Brzezinski aspired to test his ideas out in the real world. He caught the eye of Jimmy Carter,

1:42.5

advising him on his campaign and eventually joining his

1:46.0

administration as his national security advisor. Brzezinski became one of the most influential

1:52.4

foreign policy figures in American history. He played an outsized role in shaping the end of the

1:58.3

Cold War and in placing human rights at the center of American

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