Can Democrats Fix America's Image? - Zbigniew Brzezinski October 30, 2008

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/02/A_Discussion_on_Political_Power_at_CUNY

Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that only a President "not of the party in power" can positively change America's image abroad.

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What is the most effective way to influence the exercise of political power? Can genocide be halted? What are the natural limits of political power?

Join three preeminent policy and opinion makers as they discuss the violation and defense of human rights by national and international powers.

Featuring Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor; Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times; and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center moderates - City University New York

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China — today's Taiwan), the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II), the brokering of the Camp David Accords, the transition of Iran to an anti-Western Islamic state, encouraging reform in Eastern Europe, emphasizing human rights in U.S. foreign policy, the arming of the mujaheddin in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet-friendly Afghan government and later to counter the Soviet invasion, and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

He is currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils. He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.