This book presents an analysis of issues of nuclear ethics and a coherent position between the black and white extremes of nuclear advocacy and nuclear abolition. Joseph Nye, both a trained ethicist and researcher on nuclear strategy, argues that the strategy of deterrence must remain conditional. Outline a just-defence doctrine for the nuclear age, Nye provides a sensitive moral compass for policy choices and offers a sense of hope for the future.
This book presents an analysis of issues of nuclear ethics and a coherent position between the black and white extremes of nuclear advocacy and nuclea...
This book, written by a scholar of international relations, argues that American leadership is likely to continue well into the 21st century, but that the nature of our power has changed.
This book, written by a scholar of international relations, argues that American leadership is likely to continue well into the 21st century, but that...
The debate over national security and arms control has focused primarily on weapons--more or fewer weapons, different kinds of weapons. Hawks tend to see the immediate cause of war as one-sided weakness that tempts an aggressive adversary. For Doves, the primary cause of war lies in arms races that become provocative.
The debate over national security and arms control has focused primarily on weapons--more or fewer weapons, different kinds of weapons. Hawks tend to ...
Changing markets are challenging governance. The growing scale, reach, complexity, and popular legitimacy of market institutions and market players are re-opening old questions about the role of the public sector and redefining what it means to govern well. This volumethe latest publication from the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Governmentexplores the way evolving markets alter the pursuit of cherished public goals. John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. frame the inquiry with an essay on governing well in an age of ascendant markets. Other...
Changing markets are challenging governance. The growing scale, reach, complexity, and popular legitimacy of market institutions and market players...
The latest in a series exploring twenty-first-century governance, this new volume examines the use of market means to pursue public goals. Market-based governance includes both the delegation of traditionally governmental functions to private players, and the importation into government of market-style management approaches and mechanisms of accountability. The contributors (all from Harvard University) assess market-based governance from four perspectives: The demand side deals with new, revised, or newly important forms of interaction between government and the market where the public...
The latest in a series exploring twenty-first-century governance, this new volume examines the use of market means to pursue public goals. Market-b...
This suspenseful debut novel, informed by the author's inside view of high-stakes contemporary politics, exposes Washington's power struggles, temptations, and deceptions
This suspenseful debut novel, informed by the author's inside view of high-stakes contemporary politics, exposes Washington's power struggles, temptat...
Advances in information technology are transforming democratic governance. Power over information has become decentralized, fostering new types of community and different roles for government. This volumedeveloped by the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Governmentexplores the ways in which the information revolution is changing our institutions of governance. Contributors examine the impact of technology on our basic institutions and processes of governance, including representation, community, politics, bureaucracy, and sovereignty. Their essays...
Advances in information technology are transforming democratic governance. Power over information has become decentralized, fostering new types of ...
Explores how globalisation alters the challenge of governance. Examining the trajectory of globalisation in broad areas as well as within individual nations, the book explores new approaches and adptations of governance to a globalised world.
Explores how globalisation alters the challenge of governance. Examining the trajectory of globalisation in broad areas as well as within individual n...
Joseph S., Jr. Nye Philip D. Zelikow David C. King
Confidence in American government has been declining for three decades. Three-quarters of Americans said they trusted the Federal government to do the right thing in 1964. Today, only a quarter do. Why the decline? Is this mistrust a healthy reflection of America's long-lasting skepticism of a strong state? Is mistrust a problem for the future of governance?
Bringing together essays by leading Harvard scholars, this book explores the roots of mistrust. It first examines government's current scope, its actual performance, and citizens' perceptions of its performance. It then assesses...
Confidence in American government has been declining for three decades. Three-quarters of Americans said they trusted the Federal government to do ...
'... an extraordinarily accurate and insightful account of the Cuban missile crisis. I remember well the fear of which he writes so persuasively.'-Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
'... an extraordinarily accurate and insightful account of the Cuban missile crisis. I remember well the fear of which he writes so persuasively.'-Rob...
