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Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

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After the liberal international order

Published On: July 8, 2020 11:05 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

If Biden is elected, the question he will face is not whether to restore the liberal international order. It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights.

What Is a Moral Foreign Policy?

Published On: March 10, 2020 10:19 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

CAMBRIDGE – Many Americans say they want a moral foreign policy, but disagree on what that means. Using a three-dimensional scorecard encourages us to avoid simplistic answers and to look at the motives, means, and consequences of a US president’s actions. Consider, for example, the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes. When people call for a “Reaganite foreign policy,” they mean to highlight the clarity of his rhetoric in the presentation of values. Clearly stated objectives helped educate and motivate the public at home and abroad.

Why Morals Matter in Foreign Policy

Published On: January 12, 2020 08:15 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

CAMBRIDGE – When I told a friend I had just written a book on morality and foreign policy, she quipped: “It must be a very short book.” Such skepticism is common. An Internet search shows surprisingly few books on how US presidents’ moral views affected their foreign policies. As the eminent political theorist Michael Walzer once described American graduate training in international relations after 1945, “Moral argument was against the rules of the discipline as it was commonly practiced.”

Can cyberwarfare be regulated?

Published On: October 19, 2019 12:00 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

The key to deterrence and de-escalation in the cyber realm is to acknowledge that we still have a lot to learn and expand process of communication among adversaries

Trump’s effect on US foreign policy

Published On: September 11, 2019 12:32 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Institutions, trust, and soft power are more likely to erode if Trump is in office for eight years rather than four

Is “populist” tide retreating?

Published On: February 10, 2019 03:17 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

The roots of populist reactions are both economic and cultural, and are the subject of important social science research.

Cooperative rivalry

Published On: November 13, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Neither China nor the US poses an existential threat to the other the way that Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union did

Asia after Trump

Published On: April 11, 2018 12:00 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

According to most experts, while China’s capacity is improving, US remains world leader in research and development.

New cybersecurity norms

Published On: March 13, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Development of cybersecurity norms will be a long process. Progress in some areas need not wait for progress in others

Decline of US soft power

Published On: February 13, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

One of the greatest sources of America’s soft power is the openness of its democratic processes

Geopolitics of energy

Published On: November 5, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

United States has become the so-called swing producer capable of balancing supply and demand in global hydrocarbon markets.

On Secession

Published On: October 8, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Treating self-determination as a primary rather than secondary moral principle could have terrible results.

Trump’s impact

Published On: September 10, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Would structural forces have brought about the same era of US global leadership under different presidents?

Gift to Europe

Published On: July 11, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Ironically Donald Trump may prove more of a help than a hindrance for a common defense structure in Europe

Xi the Marco Polo?

Published On: June 14, 2017 01:00 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

The United States should welcome China’s BRI and encourage it to be a “responsible stakeholder”

Information warfare

Published On: May 16, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Russia employs armies of paid trolls and botnets to generate false information that can later be legitimated as if it were true

To my non-American friends

Published On: April 15, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Sometimes my friends talk as though the sky is falling and ask if Trump is as dangerous a narcissist as Mussolini. I tell them not to panic

How Trump communicates

Published On: February 15, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Trump’s communication skills were honed in the world of reality television, where outrageous and provocative statements entertain audiences and boost viewership

The China conundrum

Published On: January 18, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

If pressed and isolated by Trump’s policy, will China become a disruptive free rider?

Powerful Leaders

Published On: June 7, 2016 07:34 PM NPT By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Machiavelli understood that fear and love are not opposites, and that the opposite of love—hatred—is dangerous for leaders