Joseph S Nye

Am­bi­gu­i­ty sur­rounds the Russ­ian in­ter­ven­tion with the 2016 US elec­tions and the mea­sures tak­en to pre­vent it.

He has proved de­fi­cient in terms of self-con­trol, leav­ing him un­able to move to­wards the cen­tre for gen­er­al elec­tion.

The move­ment to­wards sov­er­eign con­trol of the in­ter­net is grow­ing, and a de­gree of frag­men­ta­tion al­ready ex­ists.

Lead­er­ship by the most pow­er­ful coun­try is im­por­tant for the pro­duc­tion of glob­al pub­lic goods.

By 2023, the US will ex­port more en­er­gy than it im­ports.

The prob­lem with R2P is that mo­tives are of­ten mixed, and some­times an in­ter­ven­tion does more harm than good.

Greater de­pen­dence on net­worked com­put­ers and com­mu­ni­ca­tion leaves the US more vul­ner­a­ble to at­tack than oth­ers.

The US elec­tion cam­paign has been marked by calls from Re­pub­li­cans for a rad­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion in for­eign pol­i­cy.

Would the world be more peace­ful if women were in charge? A new book by Steven Pinker says that the an­swer is “yes”.

This year’s re-elec­tion cam­paigns will test the charis­ma of Oba­ma in the Unit­ed States and Sarkozy in France.