ABSTRACT
William Odom to analyze Zbigniew Brzezinski’s influence and thinking. When applied to Brzezinski foreign policy, it means building structures of like-minded nations in which they can organize and institutionalize the world in much the same manner in which democratic nations are internally organized, governed and prosper. His influence has been such—and has been so highly prized—that the day called forth the likes of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, and former director of the National Security Agency Gen. There was a sense in all of the speeches that the Clinton years had squandered the opportunity after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 to build the world anew. Then the Bush years took us to no architecture at all, but rather to a total collapse of foreign policy design, ending in a dust heap of arrogance and conflict.
