News Government and Law Former National Security Adviser Brzezinski to speak at UNC
| Former National Security Adviser Brzezinski to speak at UNC |
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| Monday, February 18, 2008 | |
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Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski will give a free public talk about global security challenges at 7:45 p.m. March 5 in UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center.
Brzezinski, an author, political scientist and geo-strategist, is a professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University’s Washington, D.C., campus. He was National Security Adviser for the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981. His numerous books include “Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower” (Basic Books, 2007), an assessment of U.S. foreign policy under former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and current President George W. Bush. Brzezinski also wrote “The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century” (Scribner, 1989); “The Geostrategic: Living with China, Europe and Russia” (CSIS PRESS, 2001) and co-wrote “Iran: Time for a New Approach,” a report in 2004 by an independent task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. The talk is cosponsored by the Triangle Institute of Security Studies, a consortium of faculty members from UNC and Duke and N.C. State universities who specialize in national and international security. The Global Education Center also is cosponsoring the talk. The Global Education Center, at the corner of Pittsboro and McCauley streets, offers limited parking in a deck under the building and a small lot behind it. Both are accessed from the south side of McCauley Street between South Columbia and Pittsboro streets. For more information, call (919) 613-9280. Web site: http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/tiss/ Triangle Institute for Security Studies contact: Carolyn Pumphrey, (919) 613-9280. |