Brzezinski’s death, at a hospital in Northern Virginia, was announced on Friday night by his daughter, Mika, on social media. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 28, 1928.

"My father passed away peacefully tonight," NBC journalist Mika Brzezinski said on Instagram.

"He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his grandchildren as Chief and to his wife as the enduring love of her life," she wrote.

"I just knew him as the most inspiring, loving and devoted father any girl could ever have," she added.

Brzezinski, like Henry A. Kissinger, was a foreign-born intellectual with extensive influence in global affairs, even long after they left the White House.

The Polish-born academic served as a counselor to former President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was Carter's national security adviser from 1977 to 1981.

Brzezinski used to claim that he helped topple economic barriers between the Soviet Union, China and the West, and helped Carter establish ties between Egypt and Israel, which led to the Camp David accords between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.

Brzezinski, the author of The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, had once acknowledged that he provoked the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan so that it could get its "Vietnam". The US administration trained and sponsored fighters from Afghanistan and militants from several other countries to fight against the Soviet invasion.