Joseph S. Nye Jr. Quotes

#1. Globalization has made national boundaries more porous but not irrelevant. Nor does globalization mean the creation of a universal community.

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#2. The world is neither unipolar, multipolar, nor chaotic - it is all three at the same time.

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#3. What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises from the attractiveness of a country's culture, political ideals, and policies.

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#4. Information is power, and modern information technology is spreading information more widely than ever before in history.

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#5. During the twentieth century, America recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910: 14.7 percent of the population. A century later, about 40 million people or nearly 13 percent of Americans today are foreign-born citizens.

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#6. Smart power is neither hard nor soft. It is both. Joseph

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#7. power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants.

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#8. Weber warns that "he who seeks the salvation of the soul, his own soul and others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics.

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#9. Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that.

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#10. A moral vision must be balanced by the realist dimension of prudence to have a reasonable prospect of success.

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#11. I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it?

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#12. In 2009, polls showed an impressive "revival of America's global image in many parts of the world reflecting confidence in the new president."53 One poll-based assessment of brand values even suggested the Obama effect was worth $2 trillion in brand equity.

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#13. Terrorism, like theater, is a competition for audience. Shocking events are designed to capture attention, polarize, and provoke overreactions from their targets.

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