Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter who helped broker the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt, worked to normalize relations with China and launched controversial efforts by the U.S. to arm Islamic fighters battling the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, has died. He was 89 years old.
His death was announced on social media Friday night by his daughter, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, according to the Associated Press.
Mr. Brzezinski, known to his friends as “Zbig,” was considered for decades a leading expert on international affairs. He worked in the State Department for President Lyndon Johnson and advised several Democratic presidential campaigns, including those of Hubert Humphrey and Barack Obama, on international affairs.
He was staunchly anti-communist but vigorously argued U.S. diplomatic decisions should be grounded in strategic and practical reasoning, not ideology.
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