2008 - 2009 PARTICIPANTS |
 | Zbigniew Brzezinski Former U.S. National Security Advisor Political Power Zbigniew Brzezinski is a counselor and trustee for the Center for Strategic and International Studies as well as the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. From 1977 to 1981, he served as the National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In 1981 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for his role in the normalization of US-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.” He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. He was also a member of the President's Chemical Warfare Commission (1985), the National Security Council–Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (1987–1988), and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1987–1989). In 1988, he was cochairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force, and in 2004, he was cochairman of a Council on Foreign Relations task force that issued the report Iran: Time for a New Approach. He has been a member of the faculties of Columbia and Harvard and is the author of many books, including The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership; The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives; The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century; and, most recently, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. He is an international adviser to many major U.S./global corporations and is the co-chairman of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus. |
