“Brzezinski’s ability to package his depth of insight and breadth of vision into a form that worked in the Washington policy process, and was influential, is really an outstanding accomplishment.”
Europe wasn’t always quite as idealistically naive as it appears to be today. For the EU to avoid catastrophe, its leaders need to rediscover their predecessors’ hard-headed realism.
Read our own Walter Russell Mead in Mosaic, where he argues that neither “nationalist particularism” nor “cosmopolitan universalism” is “the answer to the human condition.”
