The Future of Power

“Nye is a master of his field at the height of his power.”—Washington Post

“An illuminating distillation of the power relationships shaping a world in which the state with the best military can lose to the adversary with the better story ... Nye makes sense of these new complexities.”—Financial Times

“Nye is the preeminent theorist of power in world affairs today, and this book is a grand synthesis of his ideas and an essential guide to the debate over the decline of the United States and the rise of China.”—Foreign Affairs

“Painstaking… Rigorous… Mr. Nye sets out a taxonomy of twenty-first-century power …casting doubt on the idea that America is in precipitate decline.”—Economist

“As power moves from west to east and from the palaces of dictators to the street, it is not just the identities of power brokers that are changing: so is the very meaning of power. No one is better placed to explain these trends than the scholar‑statesman Joe Nye… The Future of Power contains important essays on both ‘cyber power’ and ‘American decline,’ but what is most useful is Nye’s subtle exegesis of the mechanics of more conventional forms of power.—New Statesman

“While the British generally take a wary attitude to international gurus, it is worth bearing in mind that what Nye… think(s) today has a habit of becoming the global consensus tomorrow.”—Mary Dejevksy, Independent

“A concise, forceful statement of what Nye refers to as the liberal realist position in the US academy and in US politics… (which) paints a plausible scenario for the continuance of the US at the heart of the international system.”—Times Higher Education Supplement

“Joseph Nye is America’s foremost expert on the substance, diversity, uses, and abuses of power. He writes with insights that a president or secretary of state would find valuable, and makes foreign policy less foreign for every reader. If your goal is to understand world affairs in the twenty‑first century, there could be no better guide than The Future of Power.”—Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State