''The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives'' (1997) is one of the major works of

Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński ( , ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter' ...

. Brzezinski graduated with a PhD from Harvard University in 1953 and became Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University. He was later the United States National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981, under the administration of President

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. Regarding the landmass of

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as the center of global power, Brzezinski sets out to formulate a Eurasian

geostrategy Geostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning. As with all strategies, geostrategy is concerned with matching m ...

for the United States. In particular, he writes that no Eurasian challenger should emerge that can dominate Eurasia and thus also challenge U.S. global pre-eminence. Much of Brzezinski's analysis is concerned with

geostrategy in Central Asia Central Asia has long been a geostrategic location because of its proximity to the interests of several great powers and regional powers. Strategic geography Central Asia has had both the advantage and disadvantage of a central location between ...

, focusing on the exercise of power on the Eurasian landmass in a post-Soviet environment. In his chapter dedicated to what he refers to as the "Eurasian Balkans", he uses Halford J. Mackinder's

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. The book was critically reviewed by ''

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'', '' Kirkus Reviews'', '' Foreign Affairs'', and other publications.

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