Joseph S. Nye
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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Telephone: (617) 495-1123
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Email: Joseph_Nye@harvard.edu
February 1, 2011
The Future of Power
Book
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
The influential policy thinker who coined the term "soft power" examines the changing nature of power since the Cold War, the new ways in which it is exercised, and how those changes impact America's role in the world.
February 2008
The Powers to Lead
Book
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. offers a sweeping look at the nature of leadership in today's world, in an illuminating blend of history, business case studies, psychological research, and more. As he observes, many now believe that the more authoritarian and coercive forms of leadership—the hard power approaches of earlier military-industrial eras—have been largely supplanted in postindustrial societies by soft power approaches that seek to attract, inspire, and persuade rather than dictate.
June, 2002
Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age
Book
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Book
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
2008
"The Future of American Power"
Book Chapter
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"It is generally agreed that the United States is the leading power at the beginning of the twenty-first century, but there is less agreement on how long this will last. Some observers argue that American pre-eminence is simply the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and that this 'unipolar moment' will be brief, while others argue that America's power is so great that it will last for much of the coming century...."
Wielding Soft Power
Book Chapter
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Diplomatic Measures
Book Chapter
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
The Challenge of China
Book Chapter
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
March 2012
"The Twenty-First Century Will Not Be a 'Post-American' World"
Journal Article, International Studies Quarterly, issue 1, volume 56
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"After the collapse of Cold War bipolarity, power in the global information age became distributed in a pattern that resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game. On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar, and the United States is likely to retain primacy for quite some time. But on the middle chessboard, economic power has been multi-polar for more than a decade...with the United States, Europe, Japan, and China as the major players, and others gaining in importance. The bottom chessboard is the realm of transnational relations that cross borders outside of government control. It includes nonstate actors as diverse as bankers electronically transferring funds, terrorists transferring weapons, hackers threatening cyber-security, and threats such as pandemics and climate change. On this bottom board, power is widely diffused, and it makes no sense to speak of unipolarity, multipolarity, or hegemony."
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November/December 2010
"The Future of American Power"
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
It is currently fashionable to predict a decline in the United States' power. But the United States is not in absolute decline, and in relative terms, there is a reasonable probability that it will remain more powerful than any other state in the coming decades.
