Zbigniew Brzeziński

At-a-Glance

Served as Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981.
Counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968.
Primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission.
Instrumental in the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China.
Brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Member of various boards and councils.

Biography

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński (1928–2017) was a distinguished Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He held significant roles in U.S.

foreign policy, notably serving as Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. Prior to this, he was a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968.

As a scholar, Brzeziński was associated with the realist school of international relations, drawing from the geopolitical traditions of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J.