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Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., an emeritus professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a former US assistant secretary of defense, is 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. US-China Cooperation Remains Possible
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    US-China Cooperation Remains Possible

    May 6, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. identifies seven areas where the two countries can still work together toward mutually beneficial outcomes.

  2. How to Prevent a War Over Taiwan
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    How to Prevent a War Over Taiwan

    Apr 8, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. explains what can be done to keep the peace between America and an increasingly assertive China.

  3. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., on nuclear risk, American hubris, great-power competition, and more
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    Joseph S. Nye, Jr., on nuclear risk, American hubris, great-power competition, and more

    Apr 2, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. calls for restoring the credibility of the US nuclear umbrella, highlights the role of nongovernmental agencies in international relations, worries that the US will play its cards poorly vis-à-vis China, and more.

  4. Is Nuclear Proliferation Back?
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    Is Nuclear Proliferation Back?

    Mar 5, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. considers lessons from his own work on preventing the spread of the technology in the 1970s.

  5. American Greatness and Decline
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    American Greatness and Decline

    Feb 1, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. warns that populist nationalism at home is by far the biggest threat to US power.

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    Rough Justice for Trump

    Eric Posner

    Following Donald Trump’s conviction in a Manhattan courtroom, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board worries that the successful prosecution of a former president will usher in “a new and destabilizing era of American politics.” But that era already began in 2016, and the blame for it lies squarely with Trump himself.

     thinks the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict is the best that can be hoped for, under the circumstances.
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    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.
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    Restoring Africa’s Culture and Philosophy Is the Key to Development

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how the lack of a collective consciousness has reduced most governments to managing crisis after crisis.
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    A Plea for Political Economy

    Kaushik Basu thinks understanding recent technological advances requires economists to revive an old tradition.
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    The Danger of Premature ECB Rate Cuts

    Axel A. Weber warns that inviting renewed persistent inflation would be much worse than keeping monetary policy too tight.
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    Britain’s Make-or-Break Election

    Chris Patten laments the absence of responsible leaders capable of addressing the country’s many daunting challenges.
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    China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away

    Alicia García-Herrero & Alessio Terzi explain why the current growth strategy will inevitably fail to address the roots of the economy’s problems.
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    Trade Unions Can Defeat Europe’s Far Right

    Oliver Roethig explains why stronger trade unions hold the key to countering the rise of extremist parties.

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