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Articles of the author Joseph S Nye
Cyber war and peace
CAMBRIDGE: Two years ago, a piece of faulty computer code infected Iran's nuclear program and destroyed many of the centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Some observers declared this apparent sabotage to be the harbinger of a new form of warfare, and (...)

12 - 04 - 2012
What's wrong with transformational leadership?
CAMBRIDGE: This year's presidential campaign in the United States has been marked by calls from Barack Obama's would-be Republican challengers for a radical transformation of American foreign policy. Campaigns are always more extreme than the (...)

11 - 03 - 2012
When women lead
MUNICH: Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes.” In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker presents data showing that (...)

09 - 02 - 2012
Charisma we can believe in
CAMBRIDGE: A leadership transition is scheduled in two major autocracies in 2012. Neither is likely to be a surprise. Xi Jinping is set to replace Hu Jintao as President in China, and, in Russia, Vladimir Putin has announced that he will reclaim the (...)

10 - 01 - 2012
Obama's Pacific pivot
CAMBRIDGE: Asia's return to the center of world affairs is the great power shift of the21st century. In 1750, Asia had roughly three-fifths of the world's population and accounted for three-fifths of global output. By 1900, after the Industrial (...)

12 - 12 - 2011
The decline and fall of America's decline and fall
CAMBRIDGE: The United States is going through difficult times. Its post-2008 recovery has slowed, and some observers fear that Europe's financial problems could tip the American and world economy into a second recession. American politics, (...)

10 - 10 - 2011
Ten years after the mouse roared
CAMBRIDGE: Al-Qaeda's attack on the United States 10 years ago was a profound shock to both American and international public opinion. What lessons can we learn a decade later? Anyone who flies or tries to visit a Washington office building gets (...)

02 - 09 - 2011
Democracy's drama in terrorism's theater
CAMBRIDGE: President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming democracy promotion as a central focus of American foreign policy. He was not alone in this rhetoric. Most US presidents since Woodrow Wilson have made similar statements. So it was a (...)

07 - 08 - 2011
Should china be 'contained'?
CAMBRIDGE: This month marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger's secret trip to Beijing, which launched the process of mending a 20-year breach in diplomatic relations between the United States and China. That trip, and President Richard (...)

04 - 07 - 2011
Has economic power replaced military might?
CAMBRIDGE: At the Cold War's end, some pundits proclaimed that “geo-economics” had replaced geopolitics. Economic power would become the key to success in world politics, a change that many people thought would usher in a world dominated by Japan (...)

07 - 06 - 2011
American power after Bin Laden
OXFORD: When one state is preponderant in power resources, observers often refer to the situation as hegemonic. Today, many pundits argue that other countries' rising power and the loss of American influence in a revolutionary Middle East point to (...)

06 - 05 - 2011
Is China overtaking America?
CAMBRIDGE: The twenty-first century is witnessing Asia's return to what might be considered its historical proportions of the world's population and economy. In 1800, Asia represented more than half of global population and output. By 1900, it (...)

12 - 04 - 2011
Obama's tightrope
CAMBRIDGE: According to a United States State Department official, the concept of “smart power” — the intelligent integration and networking of diplomacy, defense, development, and other tools of so-called “hard” and “soft” power — is at the heart (...)

10 - 03 - 2011
Asia in the balance
CAMBRIDGE: Last year, the leaders of all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council visited India, accompanied by delegations of business leaders. The Indian economy has been growing at more than 8 percent annually, making it (...)

11 - 01 - 2011
The North Korean enigma
CAMBRIDGE : What is going on in North Korea? On November 23, its army fired nearly 200 artillery rounds onto the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, near the two countries' disputed maritime border, killing four – including two civilians – and (...)

03 - 12 - 2010
Japan's options
TOKYO: The current tensions between China and Japan have revived talk about how far Japan has fallen since its glory years of the 1980s. To the extent that this sense of decline is grounded in reality, can Japan recover? Japan's economy has (...)

22 - 11 - 2010
The future of power
CAMBRIDGE: Global government is unlikely in the twenty-first century, but various degrees of global governance already exist. The world has hundreds of treaties, institutions, and regimes for governing interstate behavior involving (...)

11 - 10 - 2010
Can Russia Be Great?
CAMBRIDGE: In the 1950s, many Americans feared that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States as the world's leading power. The Soviet Union had the world's largest territory, the third largest population, and the second largest economy, and (...)

17 - 09 - 2010
The closing of America?
CAMBRIDGE: The United States is locked in debate over immigration. The state of Arizona recently enacted legislation that encourages local police to check the immigration status of people who were stopped for other reasons — and requires immigrants (...)

18 - 08 - 2010
The dollar and the dragon
CAMBRIDGE: For several years, American officials have pressed China to revalue its currency. They complain that the undervalued renminbi represents unfair competition, destroying American jobs, and contributing to the United States' trade deficit. (...)

14 - 07 - 2010
The future of Europe
CAMBRIDGE: In the first half of the last century, Europe tore itself apart in two wars and destroyed its central role in world politics. In the second half of the century, farsighted leaders looked beyond revenge and gradually constructed the (...)

11 - 06 - 2010
What's in a BRIC?
SAO PAULO: Brazil, Russia, India, and China recently held their second annual summit in Brasilia. Journalists continue to lavish attention on these so-called “BRIC” countries, but I remain skeptical of the concept. Goldman Sachs coined the term (...)

11 - 05 - 2010
The health of American politics
CAMBRIDGE: When the United States Congress approved President Barack Obama's plan to extend health-care coverage to nearly all Americans, it marked the most important social legislation the country had seen since the 1960's. While Republican (...)

12 - 04 - 2010
China's bad bet against America
CAMBRIDGE: Chinese-American relations are, once again, in a downswing. China objected to President Barack Obama's receiving the Dalai Lama in the White House, as well as to the administration's arms sales to Taiwan. There was ample precedent for (...)

11 - 03 - 2010
The new public diplomacy
CAMBRIDGE: The world of traditional power politics was typically about whose military or economy would win. In today's information age, politics is also about whose "story wins. National narratives are, indeed, a type of currency. Governments (...)

12 - 02 - 2010
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