By Zbigniew Brzezinski
Bestselling writer and previous nationwide safeguard Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is taken into account through Democrats and Republicans alike to be one of many nation's most efficient geopolitical strategists. In "The Grand Chessboard", he bargains a daring and provocative new international imaginative and prescient for retaining and lengthening American preeminence within the twenty first century. 25 maps. 7 tables.
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S. bridgehead on the Eurasian continent so that an enlarging Europe can become a more viable springboard for projecting into Eurasia the international democratic and cooperative order. Chapter 4. The Ulack Hole THE DISINTEGRATION LATE IN 1991 of the world's territorially largest state created a "black hole" in the very center of Eurasia. It was as if the geopoliticians' "heartland" had been suddenly yanked from the global map. For America, this new and perplexing geopolitical situation poses a crucial challenge.
The crisis in Bosnia offered painful proof of Europe's continued absence, if proof were still needed. The brutal fact is that Western Europe, and increasingly also Central Europe remains largely an American protectorate, with its allied states reminiscent of ancient vassals and tributaries. This is not a healthy condition, either for America or for the European nations Matters are made worse by a more pervasive decline in Europe's internal vitality. Both the legitimacy of the existing socio-economic system and even the surfacing sense of European identity appear to be vulnerable.
More important, the areas of special concern to the French (discussed earlier) and the Germans, when viewed together as in the map below, in effect define the western and eastern limits of Europe, while the overlap between them underlines the decisive geopolitical importance of the Franco-German connection as the vital core of Europe. The critical breakthrough for the more openly assertive German role in Central Europe was provided by the German-Polish reconciliation that occurred during the mid-nineties.
