Clergyman's

The cure to misunderstanding history is to read more, not less.
- Joseph Nye

The world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is a strange cocktail of continuity and change. Some aspects of international politics have not changed since Thucydides. There is a certain logic of hostility, a dilemma about security that goes with interstate politics. Alliances, balance of power, and choices in in policy between war and compromise have remained similar over the millennia.
- Joseph Nye

Any sense of global community is weak.
- Joseph Nye

Effective foreign policymaking requires an understanding of not only international and transnational systems, but also the intricacies of domestic politics in multiple countries. It also demands recognition of just how little is known about “building nations,” particularly after revolutions – a process that should be viewed in terms of decades, not years.
- Joseph Nye

The bipolar world is over, but it not going to be replaced by a unipolar world empire that the United States controls alone. The world is already economically multipolar, and there will be a diffusion of power as the information revolution progresses, interdependence increases, and transnational actors become more important. The new world will not be neat, and you will have to live with that.
- Joseph Nye

Just as gunpowder and infantry penetrated and destroyed the medieval castle, so have nuclear missiles and the internet made the nation-state obsolete.
- Joseph Nye

The best hope for the future is to ask what is being determined as well as who determines it.
- Joseph Nye

The best hope for the future is to ask what is being determined as well as who determines it.
- Joseph Nye