While President Carter sets the broad goals and makes the decisions by which he seeks to fulfill them, his National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, provides much of the long-range thinking and the intellectual framework on which foreign policy rests. TIME White House Correspondent Stanley Cloud explored Brzezinski's ideas in two long interviews. His report:
More than a year ago, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University wrote an article for Foreign Policy magazine titled "America in a Hostile World." He called for a "new international economic order" and for new American leadership to help...