"Power" Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard's Joseph S. Nye, Jr., for a discussion of his new book, The Future of Power. Nye offers a typology of power and explains the importance of a strategy shaped by an intelligent assessment of context and resources. Emphasizing the differences between military, economic, and soft power, he distinguishes three chess boards or domains where these faces of power have a differential impact on behavior. Understanding this complexity makes for the possibility of smart power. Nye then discusses the rise and fall of great powers but emphasizes the importance of the diffusion of power especially apparent in the cyber domain in which the communications revolution has created new actors and new rules of the game. He then applies his concepts to recent international events including the revolution in Egypt; the Wiki leaks phenomena; and the humanitarian intervention in Libya. He concludes with a discussion of whether American institutions can adapt to the prerequisites of a smart strategy that comprehends the complexity of international life in the 21st century.
Annie Barrows is co-author, with her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer, of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. A New York Times bestseller, Guernsey has been translated into twenty-six languages and was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. Annie is also the author of the award-winning childrens series Ivy and Bean and The Magic Half. She lives in Northern California and is currently writing one novel for adults and one for children.
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International Medical Corps' President and CEO, Nancy Aossey, will address the ever-shifting challenges of delivering relief in some of the most dangerous places in the world, including issues of security, lack of necessary resources and the need for innovative solutions to decades-old problems. These solutions likely will be achieved through the research and innovative thinking provided by graduates of our schools of public health who are actively engaged in addressing the realities of today's world and working toward overcoming the obstacles to health and development in the future.
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