Critics of Brzezinski's theory

My transcription is from a speech of the analyst Mike Ruppert about the book of Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Great Chessboard : american primacy and the geostrategic objectives. It begin at minute one and end at minute two and twenty nine seconds.

Mike Ruppert : If you want to get really, really, really angry, go buy this book. It's called the Great chessboard : american primacy and the geostratégic objectives, written by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997. I want to read you some quotes from that book.

Page xii, it's the very first words in the book. « The last decade of the Xxth century witness a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time, a non eurasian power has emerged not only as a key arbiter of the eurasian power relations, but also as the world dominant power. The defeat and the collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendence of the western hemisphere power, the United States as the sole and indeed the first trully global superpower (page xii, it's in the preface). But in the meantime, it's imperative that no eurasian challenger […] emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purepose of this book. »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6iWom6R5Io

Sitography

Reviews :

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/

Associations :

http://www.cfr.org/

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

http://www.trilateral.org/

http://www.brookings.edu/

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/

http://www.aei.org/

Officials documents :

http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

Mondialist Vision

A mondialist vision

The vidéo is an excellent lecture about a mondialist vision of international relationship. Parag Khanna is an indian-american polititst, a young leader of the Council on Foreign Relation and also a member of the world economic forum.

He wrote two very influencial books in the microcosm of washington international studies : The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order and How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance. In these books, he describes a world without border and in a close futur, without state.

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson and the western superiority

The historian Victor Davis Hanson explain in his book The western way of war, that the western have a particular and superior way of making war. The western way would be better because they are more free, more self-criticist and so more pragmatic. This work is very influencal in the united states : for exemple the comic and the eponymous movie 300, written by Frank Miller and Directed by Zack Snyder are very close too the explaination of Victor Davis Hanson. Frank Miller thank personnaly Hanson for the book several times.

In this book, he compares the spartan warriors of King Leonidas and the american and british soldier at our times. The french analyst Michel Drac critize this view and he think that the type of governement of the neo conservative is more influenced by the « oriental despotism » than the heroïc ethics of ancient Greek. He say that the United States are not a « modern Sparte » but a « modern Persia » and the president of the United States is an épigone of Darius. Homeove, he thinks that the thesis is not false but it doesn't describe the present reality.

Bibliography :

• Victor Davis Hanson, Le modèle occidental de la guerre, 2001
• Victor Davis Hanson, Culture et carnage, 2002
• Victor Davis Hanson, La guerre du Péloponnèse, 2008
• Michel Drac, Choc et Simulacre, 2010