(See also Jonathan Power’s interview with Soviet foreign policy expert Georgi Arbatov)
Zbigniew Brzezinski remains, at 79, the feisty, acerbic figure he was when he served as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser between 1977 and 1981. Back then he was seen as the man who gradually dissuaded Carter of his more pacific convictions. Brzezinski was responsible for the administration’s confrontational tone on the Soviet Union’s human rights failings. He argued within the White House for arming the Afghan mujahedin to fight the Soviets, even before the Red army invaded. Today he has an important advisory role in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and has emerged as President George W Bush’s most searing foreign policy critic. Late last year I met him in Washington—a visit I describe in detail in an article on the Prospect website—to discuss the cold war, Putin’s Russia, Iran and US foreign policy.
JONATHAN POWER Was the end of the cold war a missed opportunity?
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