Joseph S Nye

The writer, a giant of international relations who died recently, transformed our understanding of power. This piece, his final commentary, caps off a rich legacy of trenchant insights into the most i...

Recent geopolitical developments could lead more countries to pursue the bomb

The role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states

Are we entering a totally new period of US decline, or are the second Trump administration’s attacks on the institutions and alliances that defined the American Century just another cyclical disruptio...

With an anti-globalist America at the fore, we may end up with only harmful long-distance dependencies, rather than beneficial ones

The group of major emerging economies is neither representative enough nor sufficiently united to lead others

Even if predictions based on campaign statements and Cabinet appointments leave us uncertain, Donald Trump’s worldview can still be located in a longer-running US tradition. After all, he is hardly th...

The 1960s have a lot to teach university leaders about today’s campus protests

Though both Russia and Ukraine have expressed a willingness to negotiate, they remain far apart

There will be large areas of continuity in US foreign policy no matter who wins the November presidential election. But the differences between the candidates’ attitudes towards alliances and multilat...