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Global Domination or Global Leadership
Basic Books
January 2005
On Sale: January 1, 2005
242 pages
ISBN: 0465008011
EAN: 9780465008018
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
America must make a historic choice: Will it strive to
dominate the world, or lead it? American power and a pervasive globalization are the central
realities of today's world, and the source of its most
difficult dilemmas. America's historically unprecedented
power is the ultimate source of global security, yet
Americans feel less secure than ever. Global interdependence
and the widespread political awakening of humankind promote
American dominance even as they breed anti-American envy,
mobilize global resentment, and empower America's enemies
through the diffusion of ever more destructive technologies. In The Choice, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security
Advisor to the president of the United States, reminds
Americans that their preponderance should not be confused
with omnipotence. America's well-being and the world's are
entwined. Panicky preoccupation with solitary American
security, an obsessively narrow focus on terrorism, and
indifference to the concerns of a politically restless
humanity neither enhance American security nor comport with
the world's real need for American leadership. Unless it can
harmonize its overwhelming power with its seductive but also
unsettling social appeal, America could find itself alone
and under assault in a setting of intensifying global chaos. Brzezinski has been hailed by Samuel P. Huntington for his
"clear-eyed, tough-minded...geostrategic thinking in the
grand tradition of Bismarck" and by Paul Wolfowitz as one of
the world's "most penetrating analysts of international
affairs and...one of the leading practitioners of the art of
strategy." In The Choice, he identifies America's crucial
strategic imperative: America must be both guarantor of
global security and promoter of the global common good.
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