A former adviser to President Carter will be on campus Monday to speak about the future of foreign policy in the United States.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as Carter’s national security adviser, will be the featured speaker at a 12:30 p.m. luncheon at the Kellogg Center. The event is sponsored by the James Madison College Founders Circle.

Brzezinski is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University.

James Madison College Dean Sherman Garnett was instrumental in Brzezinski’s visit. The two worked together in Washington, D.C., before Garnett was hired as dean at MSU last year.

“We worked on foreign issues together,” Garnett said. “I admire him and asked him to come to MSU.

“He said yes.”

Garnett said as a senior statesman and former security adviser, Brzezinski will be able to speak about issues that affect the whole nation.

“He’s going to talk about the role of America in the world in the coming decades,” Garnett said. “It’s an important message.”

“Although foreign policy is playing a minor role in the (presidential) campaigns, and in students’ lives right now, we have to keep in mind that in the next 20 years we’ll have to take advantage of our position in the world.”

Garnett said students should be interested in Brzezinski’s speech because the foreign policy debate affects everyone.

“Economically, politically and militarily we are the strongest country,” he said.

“But the larger set of foreign policy problems we face will affect everyone.”

To purchase tickets, contact Kim Allen at (517) 353-3381.