Joseph Nye

"The territorial state has not always existed in the past, so it need not necessarily exist in the future."

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

"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 logi…"

"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 recog…"

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

"Power, like love, is easier to experience than to define or measure."

"The cure to misunderstanding history is to read more, not less."

"I have found in my experience in government that I could ignore neither the age-old nor the brand-new dimensions of world politics."