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.

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...

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 politic...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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