Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power

433 Pages·2015·2.62 MB·English

by  Zbigniew Brzezinski

Table of Contents

—ALSO BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI—
Title Page
Table of Figures
Introduction
- PART 1 - - THE RECEDING WEST

1: THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL POWER
2: THE RISE OF ASIA AND THE DISPERSAL OF
GLOBAL POWER
3: THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL POLITICAL
AWAKENING
- PART 2 - - THE WANING OF THE
AMERICAN DREAM
1: THE SHARED AMERICAN DREAM
2: BEYOND SELF-DELUSION
3: AMERICA’S RESIDUAL STRENGTHS
4: AMERICA’S LONG IMPERIAL WAR
- PART 3 - - THE WORLD AFTER
AMERICA: BY 2025, NOT CHINESE BUT
CHAOTIC

1: THE POST-AMERICA SCRAMBLE
2: THE GEOPOLITICALLY MOST ENDANGERED
STATES
Georgia
Taiwan
South Korea
Belarus
Ukraine
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Israel and the Greater Middle East
3: THE END OF A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD
4: THE UNCOMMON GLOBAL COMMONS
- PART 4 - - BEYOND 2025: A NEW
GEOPOLITICAL BALANCE

1: EURASIA’S GEOPOLITICAL VOLATILITY
2: A LARGER AND VITAL WEST
3: A STABLE AND COOPERATIVE NEW EAST
- CONCLUSION -
Acknowledgments
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
Table of Figures

FIGURE 1.1 DECLINING IMPERIAL LONGEVITY
FIGURE 2.1 INCOME INEQUALITY(From most
unequal to least)
FIGURE 2.2 SHARE OF TOTAL NATIONAL
WEALTH
FIGURE 2.3 PERCENTAGE SHARE OF GLOBAL
GDP
FIGURE 2.4 PROJECTED GDP AND GDP PER
CAPITA
FIGURE 2.5 QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF
THE UNITED STATES AND THE EMERGING
POWERS
FIGURE 2.6 PROJECTED TOTAL POPULATION
AND AGING
FIGURE 3.1 POPULATION-AGING-GDP
COMPARED
FIGURE 4.1 GLOBAL PERFORMANCE
RANKINGS AND GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC
RANKINGS FOR TURKEY AND RUSSIA
FIGURE 4.2 THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF
HISTORICAL DISCOUNTINUITY FROM 1970 TO
2010
FIGURE 4.3 GLOBAL SYSTEMIC
PERFORMANCE RANKINGS FOR CHINA AND
INDIA, AND INDICATORS OF DEVELOPMENT
FOR CHINA AND INDIA
—ALSO BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI—

America and the World
Second Chance
The Choice
The Geostrategic Triad
The Grand Chessboard
Out of Control
The Grand Failure
In Quest of National Security
Game Plan
Power and Principle
Between Two Ages
Alternative to Partition
The Soviet Bloc
Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy
The Permanent Purge