Power in the Global Information Age

by Nye Jr.,Joseph S.

• ISBN13: 9780415700160
• ISBN10: 0415700167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-16
• 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.

Table of Contents

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