biography
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew
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pronunciation:
[bzhuhzinskee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Academic and politician, born in Poland. He settled in the USA and became a US citizen in 1958. He taught at Harvard's Russian Research Center during the 1950s and then, as professor of public law and government, at Columbia University. A member of the state department's policy planning council during the Johnson administration, he became national security adviser to President Carter (1977–80) and was the chief architect of a tough human rights policy, directed against the Soviet Union. From 1981 he resumed his position at Columbia, and also taught at Georgetown University. |
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