On the eve of America's 249th birthday, discover why — despite political division and a new Gallup low in national pride — the United States remains the greatest nation on earth. From inventions and ...

First a disclaimer: America has been responsible for appalling savagery in the past 250 years. There is no sugar-coating our sins, but as Immanuel Kant said, “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no ...

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana. Previously Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of ...

How did Pakistan, a nuclear weapons state, an opponent of Israel and a frenemy of the United States, succeed while Iran is in ...

The president’s most important job, as the sole steward of America’s nuclear arsenal, is to prevent nuclear war. And a ...

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce (Bloomsbury/Avid Reader Press) Luce, the FT’s US national editor, offers a comprehensive biography of former national ...

ON THE PAGE, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s fate is always to be compared to Henry Kissinger. It was the same in life. The two men arrived in New York from central Europe under the looming shadow of ...

There would have been violence.” Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet is published by Simon & Schuster in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK.

Jim Baker. Among them is Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish immigrant who worked his way up from escaping World War Two, to becoming the US National Security Advisor under President Jimmy Carter.

The two men best known for the job, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, held it in the 1970s. Both seemed straight from Hollywood central casting.

The relationship between the national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pope John Paul II proved critical in 1980 in dissuading the Soviets from invading Poland.