Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, will deliver a public lecture, "Will American Superpower Have a Second Chance?" at Duke University on Thursday, March 29.
The lecture begins at 3:30 p.m. at the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, on Duke's West Campus, and is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Bryan Center parking garage.
Brzezinski is expected to draw from his recently published book, "Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower," in which he assesses the short- and long-term results of the Iraq war, while also putting them in context of the global changes that have taken place during the last 20 years.
In the book, Brzezinski offers an analysis of the past three presidencies and asserts the world is in the midst of a "global political awakening." He calls the current president's foreign policy mistakes "catastrophic" and suggests America's recovery from them depends upon our next president's ability to implement foreign policies that acknowledge these global changes.
In 1981, Brzezinski was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in normalizing U.S.-China relations. A professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he is a frequent commentator in domestic and foreign media and appears often on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
This event is sponsored by the Living History Program at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, part of the Sanford Institute. Founded and funded by Jay Rutherfurd, the program records interviews and lectures by prominent individuals who have participated in national and international events. Former participants have included Les Aspin, Jesse Jackson, Robert McNamara and Elie Wiesel.