Soft Power and Great-Power Competition

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is the former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he currently holds the position of University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus. After having become a Rhodes Scholar while pursuing his MA at Oxford University, Nye ultimately earned his PhD in political science from Harvard University. He has served in a number of key US government positions, including Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. A prolific writer, some of Nye’s most well-known publications include Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (2021), Is the American Century Over? (2015) , The Future of Power (2011) and Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics (2004). He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy.

• Soft Power.- The Great Power Shift.- The Limits of Soft Power.- State Smart Power Strategies.- Understanding 21st Century Power Shifts.- Soft power: the Origins and Political Progress of a Concept.- What Is a Moral Foreign Policy?.- Soft Power and American Foreign Policy.- Get Smart: Combining Hard and Soft Power.- Obama the Pragmatist.- American Soft Power in the Age of Trump.- Trump’s Effect on US Foreign Policy.- Can Joe Biden’s America Be Trusted?.- After the Liberal International Order.- As China Rises, Must Others Bow?.- The Rise of China’s Soft Power.- Hard Decisions on Soft Power: Opportunities and Difficulties for Chinese Soft Power.- Xi Jinping’s Marco Polo Strategy.- China’s Soft and Sharp Power.- Perspectives for a China Strategy.- The ‘Nye Report’: Six Years Later.- The Dollar and the Dragon.- Is China Overtaking America?.- The Financial Crisis and US-China Misperceptions.- Work With China, Don’t Contain It.- The Future of U.S.- China Relations.- The Kindleberger Trap.-The Cooperative Rivalry of US-China Relations.- The Future of U.S.-China Relations After Buenos Aires.- For the US and China, Interdependence is a Double-Edged Sword.- Cold War with China is Avoidable.- The Logic of US-China Competition.