Zbigniew Brzezinski papers, 1798-2017

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1928, Mar. 28	Born, Warsaw, Poland
1938	Moved to Canada with his family following the appointment of his father as Polish consul-general in Montreal
1949	B.A., McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1950	M.A., McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1953	Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1953-1956	Instructor and research fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1955	Married Emilie Benes
1956-1960	Assistant professor of government and research associate, Russian Research Center and Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1956	Published The Permanent Purge: Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press Published with Carl J. Friedrich Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
1958	Naturalized United States citizen
1960-1962	Associate professor of public law and government, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Faculty member, Russian Institute, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1960	Published The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
1962-1977	Professor of public law and government, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Director, Research Institute on International Change (formerly Research Institute of Communist Affairs), Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Faculty member, Russian Institute, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1962	Published Ideology and Power in Soviet Politics. New York: Praeger
1964	Published with Samuel P. Huntington Political Power: USA/USSR. New York: Viking Press Edited Africa and the Communist World. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press
1965	Published Alternative to Partition: For a Broader Conception of America's Role in Europe. New York: McGraw-Hill
1966-1968	Member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, Washington, D.C.
1968	Foreign policy advisor, presidential campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey
1970	Published Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era. New York: Viking Press
1972	Published The Fragile Blossom: Crisis and Change in Japan. New York: Harper and Row
1973-1976	Director, Trilateral Commission
1975-1976	Principal foreign policy advisor, presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter
1977-1981	Assistant to the president for national security affairs National Security Council official
1981-1989	Professor of public law and government; director, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1981	Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
1983	Published Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Advisor, 1977-1981. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
1986	Published Game Plan: A Geostrategic Framework for the Conduct of the U.S.-Soviet Contest. Boston, Mass.: Atlantic Monthly Press
1989	Published The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century. New York: Scribner
1989	Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
1993	Published Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Scribner
1997	Published The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. New York: Basic Books
2004	Published The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership. New York: Basic Books
2007	Published Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. New York: Basic Books
2008	Published with Brent Scowcroft America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy. New York: Basic Books
2008	Published America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy. New York: Basic Books
2012	Published Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. New York: Basic Books
2017, May 26	Died, Falls Church, Va.