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BRZEZINSKI
THE GRAND
CHESSBOARD
American Primacy
and Its -
Geostrategic Imperatives
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For my students—to help them shape tomorrow's world
CONTENTS
List of Maps
ix
List of Charts and Tables
xi
Introduction: Superpower Politics
xiii
1 Hegemony of a New Type
3
The Short Road to Global Supremacy
3
The First Global Power
10
The American Global System
24
2 The Eurasian Chessboard
30
Geopolitics and Geostrategy
37
Geostrategic Players and Geopolitical Pivots
40
Critical Choices and Potential Challenges
48
3 The Democratic Bridgehead
57
Grandeur and Redemption
61
America's Central Objective
71
Europe's Historic Timetable
81
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viii
CONTENTS
4 The Black Hole
87
Russia's New Geopolitical Setting
87
Geostrategic Phantasmagoria
96
The Dilemma of the One Alternative
118
5 The Eurasian Balkans
123
The Ethnic Cauldron
125
Neither Dominion Nor Exclusion
1
135
6 The Far Eastern Anchor
151
China: Not Global but Regional
158
Japan: Not Regional but International
173
America's Geostrategic Adjustment
185
7 Conclusion
194
A Geostrategy for Eurasia
197
A Trans-Eurasian Security System
208
Beyond the Last Global Superpower
209
Index
217
The Multiple Contest
148
MAPS
The Sino-Soviet Bloc and Three Central
Strategic Fronts
7
The Roman Empire at Its Height
11
The Manchu Empire at Its Height
14
Approximate Scope of Mongol Imperial Control, 1280
16
European Global Supremacy, 1900
18
British Paramountcy, 1860-1914
20
American Global Supremacy
22
The World's Geopolitically Central Continent
and Its Vital Peripheries
32
The Eurasian Chessboard
34
The Global Zone of Percolating Violence
53
France's and Germany's Geopolitical Orbits
of Special Interest
64
Is This Really "Europe"?
82
Beyond 2010: The Critical Core of Europe's Security
85
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