JOSEPH NYE
Dean Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Power today is really like a three dimensional chessboard.
On the top chessboard is the board of military power.
And there, it's true that the United States ins the
dominant country in terms of its global military reach.
But if you look at the middle board of this 3 Dimensional
structure, the economic board, the U.S. Europe, Japan,
and China account for 2/3 of the world economy. The
U.S can't do things in this area alone, it has to
get the cooperation of others. If you look at the
bottom of this three-demensional chessgame , the board
of transnational relations, without the control of
government ranging from ranging from bankers transcfering
vast amounts of funds on little green screens, on
one end, or hackers disrupting cyberspace at the other
end, or terrorists transporting weapons of mass destruction.
Nobody's in control. This part is chaotic because
out military power doesn't necessarily work in those
other two domains.
 The
New Rome Meets the New Barbarians
Some Americans are tempted to believe that the United
States could reduce its vulnerability if it withdrew
troops, curtailed alliances and followed a more isolationist
foreign policy. But isolationism would not remove
the vulnerability. |
Rome wasn't taken down by another empire, but by
the barbarians, and in a sense the new barbarians
might be the terrorists.
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globalization is redistributing wealth, but in very
uneven ways. It is not true that the rich get richer
and the poor get poorer." -Joseph Nye
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