Power In Global Information Age: From Realism To Globalizatio

Description:
Joseph S. Nye Jr has been one of the most brilliant and influential international relations scholars of his generation and one of the few academics to have served at the very highest levels of US government. Power in the Global Information Age collects together many of his key writings for the first time as well as some important new material and an important concluding essay which examines the relevance of international relations in practical policymaking. This book includes: America's post-Cold War role in international affairs hard and soft power; the ethics of foreign policy; interdependence; the information revolution; globalization; governance; terrorism

Table of Contents:
Part 1: The Power and Limits of Realism; 1. Old Wars and Future Wars: Causation and prevention; 2. Neo Realism and Neo Liberalism; 3. Conflicts After the Cold War; Part 2: America's Hard and Soft Power; 4. The Changing Nature of Power in World Politics; 5. Soft Power; 6. The Information Revolution and American Soft Power; 7. The New Rome meets the New Barbarians; Part 3: Ideas and Morality; 8. Nationalism, Statesmen and the Size of African States 9. The Ethics of Foreign Policy; 10. NPT: The logic of inequality; Part 4: Interdependence, Globalization and Governance; 11. Independence and Interdependence; 12. Transgovernmental Relations and International Organization; 13. Globalization: What's new? What's not? (And so what?); 14. Globalization's Democratic Deficit: How to make international institutions more accountable; 15. Terrorism: Trilateral commission report; Part 5: Praxis and Theory Essay on Career Choice