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Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, is a former US assistant secretary of defense and the author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020) and A Life in the American Century (Polity Press, 2024).

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  1. What Are the BRICS Good For?
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    What Are the BRICS Good For?

    Jan 2, 2025 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. explains why the group of major emerging economies will not become the new fulcrum of world politics.

  2. Anticipating Trump’s Foreign Policy
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    Anticipating Trump’s Foreign Policy

    Dec 4, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers what can be gleaned from the president-elect’s past statements, recent appointments, and US history.

  3. Political Protest and the University
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    Political Protest and the University

    Oct 31, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. thinks the 1960s have a lot to teach university leaders about today’s campus protests.

  4. What Would Victory in Ukraine Look Like?
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    What Would Victory in Ukraine Look Like?

    Oct 8, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers what kind of peace settlement Ukraine might be able to accept in the near term.

  5. US Foreign Policy in 2025
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    US Foreign Policy in 2025

    Sep 5, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. compares the two presidential candidates’ attitudes and positions on major global issues.

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    Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation

    Anders Åslund thinks a weakening economy will soon become a serious constraint on Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
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    What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

    Philippe Aghion, et al. think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.
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    Shock-Proofing the UK Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    No country wants external developments to drive up its borrowing costs and weaken its currency, which is what the UK is facing today, together with serious cyclical and structural challenges. But if the British government responds appropriately, recent market volatility might turn out to have a silver lining.

     urges the government to communicate better what it is doing to boost resilient growth – and to do more.
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    As Trump Returns, Sino-Indian Relations Are Changing

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury explains why one of America’s key allies is hedging its bets amid escalating global tensions.
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    Ricardo Hausmann on immigration, climate finance, economic complexity, and more

    Ricardo Hausmann urges the US to issue more H1-B visas, argues that Europe must become a military superpower in its own right, applies the “growth diagnostics” framework to Venezuela, and more.
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    Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?

    Brahma Chellaney urges the incoming US administration to tighten rules governing risky “gain-of-function” research.
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    Social Media as It Should Be

    Robin Berjon explains how the Bluesky model could restore the original promise of the internet.
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    Trump’s Greenland Grab

    Carl Bildt

    Now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, he believes that it is an “absolute necessity” for the United States to have “ownership and control” of Greenland. But as an autonomous Danish territory where the US military already operates, Greenland has no reason to abandon its current political arrangement.

     explains why the US president-elect's threats to seize the Danish territory are so dangerous.
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    Joe Biden’s Disappearing Legacy

    Richard Haass thinks the outgoing US president got some big things mostly right and some big things mostly wrong.

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