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It explains the post–Soviet shift in world affairs, where the United States becomes the key arbiter of Eurasian power relations, while Eurasia remains central for Europe’s political-economic weight and Asia’s rising influence. The work frames Eurasia as the ongoing arena for managing geopolitical interests through geostrategy, asking whether U.S. primacy endures and how it can be applied toward a cooperative global community.","ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI  \nTHE GRAND CHESSBOARD  \nAmerican Primacy  \nand Its Geostrategic Imperatives  \nSA5IC  \n•AUm h i \u003C4-Q|i  \nFor my students—to help them shape tomorrow's world  \nCONTENTS  \nList of Maps ix  \nList of Charts and Tables xi  \nIntroduction: Superpower Politics xiii  \n1 Hegemony of a New Type 3  \nThe Short Road to Global Supremacy 3  \nThe First Global Power 10  \nThe American Global System 24  \n2 The Eurasian Chessboard 30  \nGeopolitics and Geostrategy 37  \nGeostrategic Players and Geopolitical Pivots 40  \nCritical Choices and Potential Challenges 48  \n3 The Democratic Bridgehead 57  \nGrandeur and Redemption 61  \nAmerica's Central Objective 71  \nEurope's Historic Timetable 81  \nviii CONTENTS  \n4 The Black Hole 87  \nRussia's New Geopolitical Setting 87  \nGeostrategic Phantasmagoria 96  \nThe Dilemma of the One Alternative 118  \n5 The Eurasian Balkans 123  \nThe Ethnic Cauldron 125  \nThe Multiple Contest 135  \nNeither Dominion Nor Exclusion1 148  \n6 The Far Eastern Anchor 151  \nChina: Not Global but Regional 158  \nJapan: Not Regional but International 173  \nAmerica's Geostrategic Adjustment 185  \n7 Conclusion 194  \nA Geostrategy for Eurasia 197  \nA Trans-Eurasian Security System 208  \nBeyond the Last Global Superpower 209  \nIndex 217  \nMAPS  \nThe Sino-Soviet Bloc and Three Central  \nStrategic Fronts 7  \nThe Roman Empire at Its Height 11  \nThe Manchu Empire at Its Height 14  \nApproximate Scope of Mongol Imperial Control, 1280 16  \nEuropean Global Supremacy, 1900 18  \nBritish Paramountcy, 1860-1914 20  \nAmerican Global Supremacy 22  \nThe World's Geopolitically Central Continent  \nand Its Vital Peripheries 32  \nThe Eurasian Chessboard 34  \nThe Global Zone ofPercolating Violence 53  \nFrance's and Germany's Geopolitical Orbits  \nof Special Interest 64  \nIs This Really \"Europe\"? 82  \nBeyond 2010: The Critical Core of Europe's Security 85  \nx MAPS  \nLoss of Ideological Control and Imperial Retrenchment 94  \nRussian Military Bases in the Former Soviet Space 108  \nThe Eurasian Balkans 124  \nMajor Ethnic Groups in Central Asia 126  \nThe Turkic Ethnolinguistic Zone 137  \nThe Competitive Interests of Russia, Turkey, and Iran 138  \nCaspian-Mediterranean Oil Export Pipelines 146  \nBoundary and Territorial Disputes in East Asia 155  \nPotential Scope of China's Sphere of Influence  \nand Collision Points 167  \nOverlap Between a Greater China and an  \nAmerican-Japanese Anti-China Coalition 184  \nLIST OF CHARTS AND TABLES  \nThe Continents: Area 33  \nThe Continents: Population 33  \nThe Continents: GNP 33  \nEuropean Organizations 58  \nEU Membership: Application to Accession 83  \nDemographic Data for the Eurasian Balkans 127  \nAsian Armed Forces 156  \nINTRODUCTION  \nSuperpower Politics  \nVER SINCE THE CONTINENTS started interacting politically,  \nEsomworlfivpouerndIrneddyearifferesntagowa,Eysu, raatsiadihaffesreeten ttimes, centhteerp  \nples Inhabiting Eurasia—though mostly those from its Western European periphery—penetrated and dominated the world's other regions as individual Eurasian states attained the special status and enjoyed the privileges of being the world's premier powers.  \nThe last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as the key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but also as the world's paramount power. The defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance of a Western Hemisphere power, the United States, as the sole and, indeed, the first truly global power.  \nEurasia, however, retains Its geopolitical importance. Not only is its western periphery—Europe—still the location of much of the world's political and economic power, but its eastern region—Asia—has lately become a vital center of economic growth and rising political influence. 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