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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski Read by Alan Peterson
Description: From one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers, the classic treatise on America’s strategic mission in the modern world
“The Grand Chessboard makes permanent contributions to the national debate over American foreign policy and power.”―Los Angeles Times
In this seminal work, celebrated political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a provocative, revolutionary geostrategy for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The United States’ crucial task, he argues, is to become the sole political arbiter in Eurasia and prevent the emergence of any rival power threatening our material and diplomatic interests. The Eurasian landmass, home to the greatest part of the globe’s popu...