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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.

This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.'s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role of the United States in the world and US-China relations. Through this collection, it is hoped that readers will gain a better understanding of today's global environment and find that while great power competition may be inevitable in a world as centers of power shift, cooperating to address transnational challenges can be a positive sum game. The contents of this book are divided into four main parts. Part One discusses the origins and political progress of the concept of "Soft Power". Part Two explores soft power in the American experience, its sources and interaction with US foreign policy, as well as its ebb and flow in the age of Obama, Trump and Biden. Part Three examines the rise of and the opportunities and difficulties for Chinese soft power, focusing on China's investment in soft power and how this demonstrates its commitment to a peaceful rise. However, it also addresses the question of how can China get "smart" on how it uses soft power. Part Four provides a bird's-eye view of power shifts in the 21st century and the interactions between the US as an established power and China as a rising power, while also reassuring readers that Thucydidean fears are unnecessary and a Cold War is avoidable. Both countries have to realize that some forms of power must be exercised with others, not over others, the development of soft power need not be a zero-sum game. Ultimately, the US-China relationship is a "cooperative rivalry" where a successful strategy of "smart competition" is necessary and cooperation on transnational challenges like climate change, pandemics, cyberterrorism and nuclear proliferation, will serve to benefit not only China and the US, but the world as a whole.

Americans constantly make moral statements about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these judgments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions. Woodrow Wilson showed, however, that good intentions without adequate means can lead to ethically bad consequences. Richard Nixon, on the other hand, is credited with ending the Vietnam War, but he sacrificed 21,000 American lives and countless others for only a brief "decent interval." In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the world's leading scholars of international relations, provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy during the American era after 1945. Nye works through each presidency from Truman to Trump and scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions of their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. Alongside this, he also evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not. Regardless of a president's policy preference, Nye shows that each one was not constrained by the structure of the system and actually had choices. He further notes the important ethical consequences of non-actions, such as Truman's willingness to accept stalemate in Korea rather than use nuclear weapons. Since we so often apply moral reasoning to foreign policy, Nye suggests how to do it better. Most importantly, presidents need to factor in both the political context and the availability of resources when deciding how to implement an ethical policy--especially in a future international system that presents not only great power competition from China and Russia, but transnational threats as borders become porous to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism to cyber criminals and climate change.

"For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War between the two titans? In this compelling essay, world renowned foreign policy analyst, Joseph Nye, explains why the American century is far from over and what the US must do to retain its lead in an era of increasingly diffuse power politics. America's superpower status may well be tempered by its own domestic problems and China's economic boom, he argues, but its military, economic and soft power capabilities will continue to outstrip those of its closest rivals for decades to come"--Publisher's description

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some presidents tried with varying success to forge a new international order while others sought to manage America's existing position. Taking readers from Theodore Roosevelt's bid to insert America into the global balance of power to George H.W. Bush's Gulf.

CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART I: TYPES OF POWER; CHAPTER 1: What Is Power in Global Affairs?; CHAPTER 2: Military Power; CHAPTER 3: Economic Power; CHAPTER 4: Soft Power; PART II: POWER SHIFTS:DIFFUSION ANDTRANSITIONS; CHAPTER 5: Diffusion and Cyberpower; CHAPTER 6: Power Transition; PART III: POLICY; CHAPTER 7: Smart Power; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX; About the Author

One of the most brilliant and influential international relations scholars of his generation, Joseph S. Nye Jr. is one of the few academics to have served at the very highest levels of US government. This volume collects together many of his key writings for the first time as well as new material, and an important concluding essay which examines the relevance of international relations in practical policymaking. This book addresses:* America's post-Cold War role in international affairs* the ethics of foreign policy* the information revolution* terrorism.