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Joseph S. Nye
By Joseph S. Nye - Mar 01,2022
CAMBRIDGE  —  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revived many questions about nuclear deterrence.
By Joseph S. Nye - Jan 11,2022
CAMBRIDGE  —  As 2021 drew to a close, Russia had massed troops near its border with Ukraine; China had flown military jets near Taiwan; North Korea was still pursuing its nuclear-weapons programme; and Taliban fighters were patrolling the streets of Kabul.
By Joseph S. Nye - Dec 07,2021
CAMBRIDGE — The United States and China are competing for dominance in technology. America has long been at the forefront in developing the technologies (bio, nano, information) that are central to economic growth in the twenty-first century.
By Joseph S. Nye - Nov 07,2021
CAMBRIDGE — At a recent meeting of trans-Atlantic foreign policy experts, a European friend told the group that he used to worry about a decline in American hard power, but felt reassured.
By Joseph S. Nye - Sep 07,2021
CAMBRIDGE — The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a horrific shock.
By Joseph S. Nye - Jul 11,2021
CAMBRIDGE — When US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first summit in Geneva last month, cyber weapons played a larger role on the agenda than the nuclear kind.
By Joseph S. Nye - Mar 09,2021
CAMBRIDGE — When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a White House spokesperson replied that the US saw the relationship as one of strong competition that required a position of strength.
By Joseph S. Nye - Feb 08,2021
CAMBRIDGE  —  How Joe Biden handles China will be one of the defining issues of his presidency. He inherits a Sino-American relationship that is at its lowest point in 50 years. Some people blame this on his predecessor, Donald Trump.
By Joseph S. Nye - Jan 06,2021
CAMBRIDGE  —  American foreign policy tends to oscillate between inward and outward orientations. President George W. Bush was an interventionist; his successor, Barack Obama, less so. And Donald Trump was mostly non-interventionist.
By Joseph S. Nye - Dec 07,2020
CAMBRIDGE — Friends and allies have come to distrust the United States. Trust is closely related to truth, and President Donald Trump is notoriously loose with the truth. All presidents have lied, but never on such a scale that it debases the currency of trust.

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