Power in the Global Information Age: From Realism to Globalization

From the Cold War to the invasion of Iraq, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. has been a pivotal voice shaping America's relations with its allies and its enemies for the last 40 years. Power in the Global Information Agebrilliantly outlines American foreign policy for the new millennium by bringing together Nye's most important reflections from government and academia. Confronting both right and left, Nye outlines America's post-Cold-War role in international affairs and presents an image of an America that has accepted its responsibility to preserve peace abroad, to maintain an open world economy and to serve as a beacon of democracy and prosperity. Collecting Nye's most important pieces on the international order as well as new essays, the book addresses the key questions that illustrate the complex interdependence of the post-9/11 world: Is America an empire in inevitable decline? Have transnational actors made the traditional "realist" power politics obsolete? What can terrorists achieve? Andwhy do we no longer trust our government? Provocative, thoughtful and rooted in a lifetime of thought and action in the international arena,Power in the Global Information Ageis a groundbreaking assessment of the new world America faces today.

Joseph S. Nye Jr. is Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Professor Nye has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1964, during which time he also served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Assistant Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology