Power in the Global Information Age; From Realism to Globalization
Editorial Reviews
Review
Few scholars of international affairs can boast of a more distinguished academic career than Joe Nye, and few foreign policy practitioners of having been more innovative and influential. Almost none has ever combined the two better. This outstanding collection puts on clear display the unique combination of analytical rigor, agile imagination and prudential wisdom that accounts for Nye's successes. Everyone can, and should, learn from these essays.
-John Gerard Ruggie, Harvard University and Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General
As these essays demonstrate, Joseph S. Nye combines clear-sighted realism about power with an uncanny sense for emerging global trends--from interdependence to 'soft power.' His insights on turning theory into ethically purposeful practice make this book a 'must' for students of world politics.
-Robert O. Keohane, Duke University
This fine collection of essays covers an astonishing range of issues -- from the analysis of power to the progress and dangers of globalization, from the ethics of nuclear weapons to the growth of international relations. What gives them coherence and unity is a persistent attempt to go beyond the truths of classical realism, to fill its gaps, and to expose its limitations.
-Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University
Book Description
From the Cold War to the invasion of Iraq, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. has been a pivotal voice shaping America's relations with its allies and its enemies for the last 40 years.
Power in the Global Information Age brilliantly outlines American foreign policy for the new millennium by bringing together Nye's most important reflections from government and academia. Confronting both right and left, Nye outlines America's post-Cold-War role in international affairs and presents an image of an America that has accepted its responsibility to preserve peace abroad, to maintain an open world economy and to serve as a beacon of democracy and prosperity.
Collecting Nye's most important pieces on the international order as well as new essays, the book addresses the key questions that illustrate the complex interdependence of the post-9/11 world: Is America an empire in inevitable decline? Have transnational actors made the traditional "realist" power politics obsolete? What can terrorists achieve? And why do we no longer trust our government?
Provocative, thoughtful and rooted in a lifetime of thought and action in the international arena, Power in the Global Information Age is a groundbreaking assessment of the new world America faces today.
Power in the Global Information Age; From Realism to Globalization
Power in the Global Information Age,Jr., J. Nye,Routledge,0415700175,1989-,American - General,Foreign relations,Globalization,International Relations - General,International relations,Literary Collections,Literature: Classics,Moral and ethical aspects,Politics / Current Events,United States,Political Science / International Relations,Political economy
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