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Joseph S. Nye, Jr.: The Future of Power

POWER EVOLVES. HOW WILL POWER WORK, AND HOW WILL IT CHANGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

In the sixteenth century, control of the colonies and the mass of gold gave Spain an advantage; in the seventeenth century Holland profited from trade and finance; in the eighteenth, France benefited from its larger population and army, and in the nineteenth, Britain's power rested on the country's lead in the industrial revolution and its navy.

In the Kennedy and Khrushchev era, power resources were measured by nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, and the number of armed men and tanks ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe. But the global information age of the twenty-first century is rapidly rendering these traditional labels of power obsolete, redistributing power relations.

In The Future of Power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a longtime power analyst and first-hand practitioner of government, provides a powerful narrative that considers the shifts, innovations, bold technologies, and new relationships that will define the twenty-first century. It shows how power resources are adapting to the digital age, and how smart power strategies must involve more than a country's military might. Information that was once reserved for the government is now available for mass consumption. The Internet has literally put power at the fingertips of non-state actors, enabling them to launch cyberattacks on governments from their homes, and to create security threats that are felt around the world. But the cyber age has also created a new front of power among states, fraught with opportunity for developing countries. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, America had about a quarter of the world's production, and only 5 percent of the world's population.

It was undoubtedly the most powerful country in the world, unmatched in military strength and ownership of the world's resources. Today, China, Brazil, India and other countries are increasing their shares of world power resources, but they remain unlikely to overtake America as the most powerful country, provided the United States adopts new strategies designed for the global information age. The decisive effect of the Internet on the nature of power is a common interest of states around the world. Examining what it means to have power in the twenty-first century, The Future of Power illuminates the way forward.

"Joseph Nye is America's foremost expert on the content, variety, uses, and abuses of power. He writes with insights that a president or secretary of state would find precious, and he makes foreign policy less foreign to any reader. If your goal is to understand world relations in the twenty-first century, there can be no better guide than The Future of Power."
M. K. Albright, former US Secretary of State

"Power once came from controlling the sea lanes. In the future, Joe Nye explains, it will come from the ability to steer the informational pathways of cyberspace, and control the narratives that affect people. Comprehensive in subject matter, yet specific in example, this book is exciting to read, and fascinating to think about."
W. Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute

"If you are looking for a brilliant and original analysis of cyberpower, read chapter five of The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye. If you are looking for the best comprehensive analysis of power in world politics available, read the entire book."
R. O. Keohane, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

"In this magisterial book, Joseph Nye offers a highly readable synthesis of over two decades of conceptually innovative scholarship. He provides a penetrating survey of different types of power, analyzes the transitions between rising and declining states, and explores the diffusion of power from state to non-state actors. Nye's liberal-realist strategy I am convinced: America can halt political decay and prolong economic prosperity by pursuing a smart power strategy that refuses to seek primacy and prefers to align itself with other nations. This book should become required reading for anyone interested in international relations."
P. J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

"Joseph Nye crystallized decades of disciplined, pragmatic, and influential thinking about what power is and should be. With his trademark blend of clarity and persuasiveness, Nye offered an antidote to fears about new superpowers and fears about America's decline.”
S. Talbott, author of The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global State