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Project Syndicate
February 6, 2018
Joseph S. Nye. Writing for PS since 2002 177 Commentaries. Subscribe. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a former US assistant secretary of defense and chairman of the US National Intelligence Council, is University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of Is the American Century Over? Previous Cancel
Project Syndicate
January 4, 2018
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a former US assistant secretary of defense and chairman of the US National Intelligence Council, is University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of Is the American Century Over? The newly-built Chinese-funded port in Hambantota Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty ImagesÃâà...
Project Syndicate
December 6, 2017
The US has talked itself into Kim Jong-un's trap of exaggerating how much power his rocketry gives him. If the US could deter a much stronger Soviet Union from taking an isolated West Berlin for three decades, it can deter North Korea. BEIJING – North Korea recently tested its Hwasong-15 ballistic missile,Ãâà...
Project Syndicate
September 29, 2017
National self-determination, the principle that US President Woodrow Wilson put on the international agenda in 1918, is generally defined as the right of a people to form its own state. The independence referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan and Catalonia are the latest examples showing why that principle is soÃâà...
Project Syndicate
September 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 Joseph S. Nye With a narcissistic personality and a short attention span, and lacking experience in world affairs, Donald Trump tends to project slogans rather than strategy in foreign policy. But just as US global primacy never depended on the personality of its president, so America's ability toÃâà...
Project Syndicate
August 10, 2017
Aug 8, 2017 Joseph S. Nye At the annual BlackHat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, 60% of attendees said they expect the US to suffer a successful attack against its critical infrastructure in the next two years. Can international norms governing cyberspace be developed to prevent such a scenario?
Project Syndicate
May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 Joseph S. Nye Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and its suspected hacking of French President Emmanuel Macron's campaign servers, should surprise no one, given President Vladimir Putin's (mis)understanding of soft power. Information warfare, while somewhatÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
December 12, 2016
During the nineteenth century, the United States played a minor role in the global balance of power. The country did not maintain a large standing army, and as late as the 1870s, the U.S. Navy was smaller than the navy of Chile. Americans had no problems using force to acquire land or resources (asÃâà...
Huffington Post
June 18, 2015
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1964. He has also served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National IntelligenceÃâà...
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