Joseph Nye
Joseph Nye
Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr.is an American political scientist. He is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory of neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence. They also explored transnational relations and world politics in an edited volume in the 1970s. More recently, he pioneered the theory of soft power. His notion of "smart power" became popular with the use of this phrase...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth19 January 1937
CountryUnited States of America
Joseph Nye quotes about
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but also good for others. That will make Americans exporters of hope again, not exporters of fear.
Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.
The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.
Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.
In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.