Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Zbigniew Brzezinski was a Polish-American political scientist and diplomat who served as U.S. National Security Advisor under President Jimmy Carter and was a leading strategist of Cold War foreign policy.

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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński 1

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instanceOf National Security Advisor of the United States
author
diplomat
human
political scientist
university professor
academicDegree PhD in political science
birthCountry Poland
birthDate 1928-03-28
birthPlace Warsaw
child Ian Brzezinski
Ian Brzezinski
surface form: Mark Brzezinski

Mika Brzezinski
countryOfCitizenship Poland
United States of America
deathDate 2017-05-26
deathPlace Falls Church
surface form: Falls Church, Virginia
educatedAt Harvard University
McGill University
employer Center for Strategic and International Studies
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins University
endTimeOfPosition 1981-01-20
ethnicGroup Polish
familyName Zbigniew Brzezinski self-linksurface differs
surface form: Brzeziński
fieldOfWork Cold War studies
geopolitics
international relations
fullName Zbigniew Brzezinski self-linksurface differs
surface form: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński
givenName Zbigniew
memberOf Council on Foreign Relations
Democratic Party
surface form: Democratic Party (United States)

Trilateral Commission
nativeLanguage Polish
notableFor serving as National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter
shaping United States foreign policy during the late 1970s
notableWork Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
occupation diplomat
political scientist
university teacher
writer
positionHeld United States National Security Advisor
counselor to the President of the United States
member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
professor at Columbia University
professor at Johns Hopkins University
precededBy Brent Scowcroft
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Emilie Benes Brzezinski
startTimeOfPosition 1977-01-20
succeededBy William P. Clark Jr.
workedFor administration of Jimmy Carter

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National Security Medal awardedTo Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski familyName Zbigniew Brzezinski self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Brzeziński
Zbigniew Brzezinski fullName Zbigniew Brzezinski self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński
Trilateral Commission hasNotableMember Zbigniew Brzezinski
Operation Cyclone notableFigure Zbigniew Brzezinski