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
I think most Americans still hope for a peaceful and beneficial future with China. As (former) President (Bill) Clinton once said, we have more to fear from a poor weak China than from a rich and democratic China.
The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing countries who are empowered by high oil prices and you have a protectionist climate in the rich countries. The two trends reinforce each other and could slow globalization.
getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they know they have to do it. The question is, Will they?
She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy. We just didn't hear about it.
She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.
The government really needs to focus on recruiting people for their first job and first opportunity. Often, most people simply price themselves out of the market.
Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.
We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.
They're nice ideals, appropriate especially in this setting celebrating Woodrow Wilson, but they're not enough, ... The strategy wasn't there and it hasn't been there.
We appear to be turning to a conservative cycle in the major countries. President Bush's administration will find they have more allies, and this will be a big plus for them.
In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others. But neither country yet ranks high on the various indices of potential soft-power resources that are possessed by the U.S., Europe and Japan.
the location of the server does not seem to give that much power.
His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.
Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested in public office could only achieve his goals by relying on soft power. They could not force anyone to vote for them. They needed to convince their potential voters, they needed to do fundraising, they needed to be attractive candidates.