Zbigniew Brzezinski Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡniɛv brəˈʒɪnski/ ZBIG-niev brə-ZHIN-skee; Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi]; born March 28, 1928) is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as a counsellor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966–1968 and held the position of United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.Brzezinski belongs to the realist school of international relations, geopolitically standing in the tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman.Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II); the brokering of the Camp David Accords; the transition of Iran from an important U.S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic; encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.Brzezinski is currently Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils. He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News' This Week with Christiane Amanpour, and on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, is co-anchor. In recent years, he has been a supporter of the Prague Process. His son, Mark Brzezinski, is an American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Sweden since 2011.
In 1995, was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian recognition, for his contribution to the recovery of Poland's independence from Soviet Union.
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In 1981 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contribution to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.
Has Ph.D. in political science from Harvard (1953).
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Received his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1950) in political science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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His father, a Polish diplomat, was posted to Canada in 1938, thus barely avoiding the outbreak of WWII a year later. The family remained in Canada and later moved to the US.
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National security advisor to US president Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981.
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Charlie Rose
1995-2014
TV Series
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin
2013
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The War Room with Michael Shure
2013
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Morning Joe
2012
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Today
2012
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Prawdziwy koniec zimnej wojny
2011
Documentary
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ukraina. Tochka otscheta
2011
Documentary
This Week
2011
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Fareed Zakaria GPS
2011
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Countdown to Zero
2010
Documentary
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Balcerowicz. Gra o wszystko
2009
Documentary
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace
2009
Documentary
Himself
Iran, une puissance dévoilée
2009
TV Movie documentary
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Iran and the West
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself - National Security Adviser: USA
Wisdom
2008
Video documentary
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Tavis Smiley
2008
TV Series
Himself
The Colbert Report
2007
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Real Time with Bill Maher
2007
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Himself
The Daily Show
2007
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Himself
Karol Wojtyla - Geheimnisse eines Papstes
2006
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Our Own Private Bin Laden
2006
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Jonathan Dimbleby
2003
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The Cold War and Beyond
2002
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The Polish Americans
1998
TV Movie documentary
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Cold War
1998
TV Mini-Series documentary
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Bookmark
1995
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The Poet Remembers
1989
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Booknotes
1989
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Firing Line
1968
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America's Book of Secrets
2012
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Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama