Power in the Global Information Age: From Realism to Globalization

by Nye Jr.,Joseph S.

• ISBN13: 9780415700177
• ISBN10: 0415700175
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-04-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 Agebrilliantly 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? Andwhy 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 Ageis a groundbreaking assessment of the new world America faces today.

Author Biography

Joseph S. Nye Jr. is Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Professor Nye has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1964, during which time he also served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Assistant Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 Hard and soft power	1	(10)
PART 1 The power and limits of realism	11	(40)
2 Old wars and future wars: causation and prevention	13	(8)
1988
3 Neorealism and neoliberalism	21	(14)
1988
4 Conflicts after the Cold War	35	(16)
1995
PART 2 America's hard and soft power	51	(52)
5 The changing nature of world power	53	(15)
1990
6 Soft power	68	(13)
1990
7 The information revolution and American soft power	81	(16)
2002
8 The new Rome meets the new barbarians	97	(6)
2002
PART 3 Ideas and morality	103	(48)
9 Nationalism, statesmen, and the size of African states	105	(10)
1975
10 The ethics of foreign policy	115	(30)
1985
11 NPT: the logic of inequality	145	(6)
1985
PART 4 Interdependence, globalization, and governance	151	(64)
12 Independence and interdependence	153	(18)
1976
13 Transgovernmental relations and international organizations	171	(20)
WITH ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 1975
14 Globalization: what's new? what's not? (and so what?)	191	(10)
WITH ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 2000
15 Globalization's democratic deficit: how to make international institutions more accountable	201	(5)
2001
16 Terrorism	206	(9)
2003
PART 5 Praxis and theory	215	(10)
17 Essay on career choice	217	(8)
Index	225