Will China Democratize? Disruption Without Disintegration

Issue Date January 1998
Volume 9
Issue 1
Page Numbers 4-5
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About the Author

Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. national security advisor during the Carter administration, is professor of U.S. foreign policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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