He was a supporter of the Prague Process. He appeared 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. 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. Critics described him as hawkish or "foreign policy hardliner" on some issues such as Poland–Russia relations. He has been praised for his ability to see "the big picture". He was an advocate for anti-Soviet containment, for human rights organizations, and for "cultivating a strong West". control of the Panama Canal after 1999.īrzezinski's personal views have been described as "progressive", "international", political liberal, and "strong anti-communist". Major foreign policy events during his time in office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan) the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union the brokering of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel the overthrow of the US-friendly Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the start of the Iranian Revolution the United States' encouragement of dissidents in Eastern Europe and championing of human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union supporting the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and, ultimately, Soviet occupation troops during the Soviet–Afghan War and the signing of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. Brzezinski was the primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission. Spykman, while elements of liberal idealism have also been identified in his outlook. As a scholar, Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński ( / ˈ z b ɪ ɡ n j ɛ f b r ə ˈ z ɪ n s k i/ ZBIG-nyef brə- ZIN-skee, Polish: ( listen) Ma– May 26, 2017), or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist.
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