This anthology brings together essays and speeches the author have written and delivered, both in academia and in government, on the perennial question of national security that involves wider considerations, including political statecraft, economic strength, and ideological vitality.

Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Preface -- Introduction -- U.S. Strategy -- From Loss of Nerve to Loss of Control -- Reagan's Ominous Legacy in Foreign Policy -- U.S. Military Strategy -- America's New Geostrategy -- The Making of National Security Policy -- The NSC and the President -- Executive-Legislative Tensions in Foreign Affairs -- Not History But Morality -- The Carter Legacy -- U.S. Policy and Global Change -- The Goals of U.S. Foreign Policy -- President Carter's Human Rights Policy -- Defense and Arms Control -- SALT and National Security -- From Arms Control to Controlled Security -- The Strategic Implications of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" -- A World Without Nuclear Weapons -- Trilateral Relations -- Western Power and Global Security -- The North Pacific and Global Security -- Peaceful Change in a Divided Europe -- Regional Conflicts -- America's Mideast Policy Is in Shambles -- Geopolitics and U.S. Strategy in the Gulf -- Afghanistan and Nicaragua -- Strategic Implications of the Central American Crisis -- U.S.-Soviet Relations -- A World Power of a New Type -- The Crisis of Communism -- The Future of Yalta -- The U.S.-Soviet Relationship: Paradoxes and Prospects