Grand Chessboard

Zbigniew Brzezinski, formerly President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, is a counselor and trustee at the centre for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of New York Times bestseller Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower among many other books.

• I. Hegemony of a New Type The Short Road to Global Supremacy The First Global Power The American Global System II. The Eurasian Chessboard Geopolitics and Geostrategy Geostrategic Players and Geopolitical Pivots Critical Choices and Potential Challenges III. The Democratic Bridgehead Grandeur and Redemption America's Central Objective Europe's Historic Timetable IV. The Black Hole Russia's New Geopolitical Setting Geostrategic Phantasmagoria The Dilemma of the One Alternative V. The Eurasian Balkans The Ethnic Cauldron The Multiple Contest Neither Dominion Nor Exclusion VI. The Far Eastern Anchor China: Not Global but Regional Japan: Not Regional but International America's Geostrategic Adjustment VII. Conclusion A Geostrategy for Eurasia A Trans-Eurasian Security System Beyond the Last Global Superpower

Foreign Affairs "A tour d'horizon lucidly rendered." American Spectator "As sobering as it is timely."