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Few people took note of it at the time, but a book published in 1997 prescribed what became the major foreign policies of the United States in the 21st century.

Six years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Zbigniew Brzeziński, the former National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter and professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University, published what he hoped would become the guide to American policymakers in the post-Cold War world.

In The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives, Brzeziński laid out a strategy for the United States to maintain and extend its dominant position in the world. Central to that strategy was the prevention of any nation-state from challenging U.S. supremacy on the Eurasian landmass.

The expansion of NATO, the Balkan Wars, the Ukraine War, and recent U.S. policy toward Russia and China can only be properly understood by reading Brzeziński’s plan.

We will do precisely that in this special one-session course, which will examine the text of The Grand Chessboard and place it within its historical and political context.

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