Research Paper On Brezinski The Grand Chessboard

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Brzezinski – The Grand Chessboard

This theory provides a basic guide to the strategic goal of maintaining the rise of the United States. After entering the post-cold war era, Brzezinski put forward the "Eurasian the grand chessboard", which reemphasized the importance of Eurasia in global strategy. To some extent, this theory is the return of Mackinder "pivot theory", both of which imply fear and prevention of the future destiny of the country. Brzezinski (1998) believes that Eurasia is the largest continental geo-political axis in the world and has been the center of world forces since the formation of an international system in the modern sense. Eurasia has concentrated two of the three developed regions in the world and six of the seven …show more content…

global strategy mainly focused on how to control Eurasia. The United States believes that Russia and China are vast in scope, with a large population, abundant resources and excellent location, so they have great potential for development. Most likely to be rivals that challenge the potential geopolitical strategy of the United States. Thus preventing the rise of Russia and China was established as its major geostrategic strategic goal in Eurasia. Therefore, the U.S. adopted two kinds of policies toward Russia and China. First is soft policy that strives to bring Russia and China into the West by means of such soft ways like economic, political and cultural. The second is tough policy, which instead of giving up its containment thinking toward Russia and China, at the western end of Eurasia, the United States pushed for the eastward expansion of NATO and deprived Russia of its influence on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. And in the midst of Eurasia, the United States has stepped up its military forces in the Gulf and imposed "double containment" on Iraq and Iran and infiltrated the so-called geopolitical "pivot" countries such as Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan and the Central Asian Heights. At the eastern end of Eurasia, the United States has stepped up its military forces in the Asia Pacific region and also strengthened its alliance with Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Australia and the Philippines, as well as its influence on Southeast Asia and …show more content…

For example, China has been focusing its research on the relationship between China and the United States and is too dependent on foreign policy. At this time, China should be to avoid its edge and make full use of China 's back against the Eurasia status characteristics, vigorously promote the status and importance of Eurasia, actively developing strategic cooperative relations with Russia 's. In other words, we should make full use of the advantages of "getting together from a large nation" to disperse and offset the U.S. interference, sabotage and contain the force of China 's peaceful

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