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While President Carter sets the broad goals and makes the decisions by which he seeks to fulfill them, his National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, provides much of the long-range thinking and the intellectual framework on which foreign policy rests. TIME White House Correspondent Stanley Cloud explored Brzezinski's ideas in two long interviews. His report...
More than a year ago, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University wrote an article for Foreign Policy magazine titled "America in a Hostile World." He called for a "new international economic order" and for new American leadership to help create it-a leadership that would set "politically and morally compelling directions to which the public might then positively respond." Now the Polish emigre academic, a man of angular features whose crew cut seems a carryover from the '50s, is comfortably entrenched in the West Wing of Jimmy Carter's White House, in the same large, gold-hued corner...
Some of the professor's critics find his ideas, as one puts it, "impossibly abstract, which is not to be confused with being cerebral." Yet Carter has no such complaint and appreciates Brzezinski's ability to articulate ideas...
...giving way to "a technetronic age" in which there will be increasing emphasis on economic development and social justice. The old East-West ideological struggle will wane in importance; the North-South struggle for control of vital raw materials will gain in importance. In this emerging world, according to Brzezinski, "military power by itself will no longer dictate the ability of a nation to influence political, social and cultural developments...
...Brzezinski sees the need for the U.S. to pay more attention to nations beyond its traditional allies in Europe and Japan and its traditional adversary, the Soviet Union. If this alarms the Kremlin, he remains unruffled. He predicts that elements of U.S.-Soviet "cooperation and competition will be mixed for a long time to come," and he argues that Soviet-American relations must be "assimilated into a new approach toward the world as a whole." Brzezinski sees the Kremlin leaders as aging in both years and ideas, and feels that the U.S. is much more in step with the currents...