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Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a professor at Harvard University and a former US assistant secretary of defense, is the author, most recently, of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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  1. Is America Reverting to Isolationism?
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    Is America Reverting to Isolationism?

    Sep 4, 2023 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers the implications of the Republican Party's latest flirtation with populist foreign policies.

  2. India and the Global Balance of Power
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    India and the Global Balance of Power

    Jun 30, 2023 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. sees the country as a crucial partner to the United States, but thinks an alliance is a non-starter.

  3. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., on Chinese power, US politics, the new cold war, and more
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    Joseph S. Nye, Jr., on Chinese power, US politics, the new cold war, and more

    Jun 6, 2023 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers how China undermines its own soft power, traces the potential causes of a war over Taiwan, welcomes Europe’s embrace of “smart” power, and more.

  4. If Trump Returns
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    If Trump Returns

    May 31, 2023 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers the implications of the 2024 presidential election for America's foreign policy and global standing.

  5. Dilemmas of Deterrence
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    Dilemmas of Deterrence

    May 2, 2023 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers America’s options for risk reduction as nuclear threats escalate and China-Taiwan tensions rise.

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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