Joseph Nye - Power Quotes

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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.

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Power conversion is the capacity to convert potential power, as measured by resources, to realized power, as measured by the changed behavior of others.

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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.

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Governments now have to share the stage with actors who can use information to enhance their soft power and press governments directly, or indirectly by mobilizing their publics.

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Attention rather than information becomes the scarce resource, and those who can distinguish valuable information from the background clutter gain power.

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

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When words are both descriptive and prescriptive, thyey become political words used in struggles for power.

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Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

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