Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski
Mika Brzezinski
born May 2, 1967
2007, she joined MSNBC as an occasional anchor
co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show Morning Joe
co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show Morning Joe
formerly a CBS News correspondent, and was their principal "Ground Zero"
reporter during the morning of the September 11, 2001 attacks
visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics
daughter of the late diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski
Father of Mika Emilie
Zbigniew Kazimierz "Zbig" Brzezinski
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski
March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017
born in Warsaw, Poland
parents were Leonia (née Roman) Brzezińska and
Tadeusz Brzeziński
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Brzezi%C5%84ski
Polish-American diplomat and political scientist
1966 to 1968 served as a counselor to President
Lyndon B. Johnson
1977 to 1981 was President Jimmy Carter's National
Security Advisor
belonged to the realist school of international relations,
standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder
and Nicholas J. Spykman
served as the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American
Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of
Advanced International Studies
scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
eldest son Ian Joseph Brzezinski, is a foreign policy expert
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Brzezinski
youngest son, Mark, was the United States Ambassador to
Sweden from 2011 to 2015.
attended Harvard University to work on a doctorate with
Merle Fainsod, focusing on the Soviet Union and the relationship
between the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin's state, and the
actions of Joseph Stalin
Merle Fainsod
(May 2, 1907 – February 11, 1972)
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Fainsod
was an American political scientist best known for his work
on public administration and as a scholar of the Soviet Union
died of a heart attack on February 11, 1972 in the Harvard
hospital
authored
The American People and Their Government
International Socialism and the World War
Government and the American Economy
How Russia is Ruled
Smolensk under Soviet Rule
As a Harvard professor, he argued against Dwight Eisenhower's
and John Foster Dulles's policy of rollback, saying that antagonism
would push Eastern Europe further toward the Soviets
The Polish protests followed by the Polish October and the
Hungarian Revolution in 1956 lent some support to
Brzezinski's idea that the Eastern Europeans could gradually
counter Soviet domination
1958 became a naturalized American citizen
1959 Harvard awarded an associate professorship to
Henry Kissinger instead of Brzezinski