Joseph Nye on global power shifts

www.ted.com Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic, political and "soft" power shifts and moves around the globe.
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[@saerain]

Joe Nye, the political science guy.

[@cosmologicalturtle9528]

Joe Nye the PolSci guy JOOOEEE NYYYYYEEE THE POLSCI GUYYY JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE!

[@user91204]

As someone who's watching this video in 2024, this explanation of power through soft power, hard power and smart power is extremely well explained and creates a sense of organisation for something as chaotic as power.

[@Coltsfan]

he defined power diffusion as power moving to non-state actors, and the EU and BRICs are all comprised of state actors. It's a power shift; the US isn't declining, like everyone thinks, but it is becoming weaker because relative to China, it is growing at a snail's pace, so although the US is growing, it's not fast enough to make up the ground China is gaining.

[@Bikramthakuri999]

U’ll be the next joseph nye

[@gihonorio1028]

The thing is, I'm watching this from 2020 and the way Joseph Nye could anticipate that we have no control over pandemics ans tha China would be passing the USA in certain matters is unbeliavable.

[@Treiundzwanzig]

How's that unbelievable?

[@MrManic52001]

I mean he is wrong... China is nowhere near surpassing the US.

[@vlasevmovement]

Great talk. Quality TED!

[@Ghazzawi9]

I like the way he speaks it's very calm.

[@GovernmentMatters]

Interesting to listen to now. It was great interviewing Joseph Nye on our show recently.

[@Julianbentley]

the term is actually pretty useful. I understand that it might not be relevant to your life but for people embedded in the foreign policy process it actually is. Soft Power is referring to the types of political persuasion and coercion employed by governments that does not stem directly from the military or physical aggression (using hard power). Joining trade unions, facilitating local alliances, strengthening local economies and interdependencies--these are all soft power tactics.

[@cindyang2699]

I am watching this because of my assignment.....

[@MrChrisRab]

You're very right. Thank you for making me less dumb. I should have looked it up first.

[@AirForceJuan3]

Going to put it on my wish list. =P

[@ingridhuamancarrasco5683]

un gran crack el tío Joseph Nye

[@mrlee5051]

From the year of 2022, we stilllive in an era of hard power. We are witnessing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a deadlock in dealing with climate change due largely to nation-states' ambitions, fierce Sino-U.S. competitions, and so on. Soft power is itself important, but hard power is the very nature of international politics.

[@369-arcana_with_love]

Then negotiate with Russian arms dealers by your self. Good luck🤪

[@AKhan-xi2gq]

Brilliant!

[@John-3692]

This is remarkable content. I recently read a book with a similar theme, and it was absolutely astonishing. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

[@sparklymage]

@WyldOrbit Actually it does, and it should comfort you too since it means that a World War or even a Cold War between the U.S. and China is much less likely due to the information age.

[@diverdown4565]

Хорошее выступление, отдельное спасибо переводчику. I enjoyed that

[@369-arcana_with_love]

😂😂😂

[@meldridgereedjr2842]

You should read "The Accidental Superpower" and "The Absent Superpower" by Peter Weihan.

[@diegoibanez2962]

Concealment lie at his finnest expresion by Joseph Nye. But if you understand what he is concealment you get the answer what are you looking. Its great to listen Joseph Nye.

[@Julianbentley]

It is broad, just as the types of military action a state can take are very broad; covert operations, war, supplying arms to rebels, assassinations, drone strikes, air operations, etc. It doesn't make the term less useful.

[@stevenyeah9541]

Joseph Nye, I'd like to tell you there's a picture in my mind, an old man dressed well on a Sunday morning went to church, he entered the lift, smiled to the stranger with a fake smile. He pretended to be a good gentlemen, and talked about "don't be afraid of the rising China". There're tons of people like this but no one even mentioned that the rise of China or Asia means many poor people are getting out of poverty! I wish the next decade we see rise of Africa, south America, or rise of the poor people in America. Joseph Nye, you're not a professor, and not a gentleman with a open and warm heart, is that the soft power you're talking about?

[@streamfan6825]

you got a better shot of China calling in those loans in Africa and within a year every single black person in the continent will be speaking Chinese and wondering where there government is to protect them... Cause thats exactly what China's fixing to do...

[@NgocLe-yp7ne]

I want a Joseph Nye vs John Mearsheimer battle

[@prabutube]

great explanation

[@timcb001]

@Issphitikozs He is referring to basic psychology of motivation. Carrots and sticks. This is otherwise known as rewards and punishments as motivation.

[@delatroy]

he seems to have a really simple concept of power

[@bluefootedpig]

The part about china catching up to us and the citizens, might be true to live to where we are, but we are slowly declining, as more countries come onto the world stage and the world gets flatter. So we might drop a lot and be closer to china sooner than he expects.

[@ToniSkit]

@AirForceJuan3 well if your just starting to read foucault and have not read other philosophers etc i would recommend purchasing a book that is about foucault that summarizes or condenses is works...a good starting book would be Understanding Foucault....i dont recommend reading his texts inicially because they are dense and his way of composing is very tangled/intrinsic/complex etc.

[@abhi5a]

i could have written this speech after my first yr macroeco module...too simplistic

[@streamfan6825]

Oh you actually thought he was talking to you didnt you?

[@In300years]

what's the background music of the Ad in the end

[@delatroy]

'computing and communication costs have fallen 1000 fold between 1970 and the beginning of this century' - this must be wrong. I make it out in price / performance terms as 1,052,672 times as cheap

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

The Rolex ad at the end is funny, because their depth claims are non relevant to a human diver. Are they marketing their watches for robots now or what ?

[@sparklymage]

@WyldOrbit I think what he was arguing was that the notion of a world power is much different in the information age than it was in the 20th century and that classically speaking China would become a world power by 2050, but that way of thinking is outdated. Clearly you are thinking in an outdated fashion. For one thing, China already has an enormous amount of American corporations working there, which is something unprecedented in world history.

[@stephentsang2000]

When a term becomes to "inclusive" to encompass too many things of different nature, it will become over-abstractive and over-generalized to be useful. It will end up as obstrusive as the useless and notorious term "zeitgeist", of which scholars like to play with as to show off how "profound" the knowledge they possess. It's kinda like the notorious law makers who like to make simple things complicated so that they could monopolize the trade and make their services costly~

[@AirForceJuan3]

@ToniSkit Thank you very much, Toni. =D

[@thebytegrill]

Why isn't Noam Chomsky on ted?

[@maopinion8396]

There must be fear in America when Asia rises.

[@NerdyLiberal]

1980s was the end of America. We have a massive government, but no one wants to pay for it since Reagan. Also, we didn't transfer over to Silicon valley as our education system sucks. Posted at 8:20 in the video

[@jnthnbush]

@Saerain "inertia is a property of matter"

[@fitobcnfito]

@AtheistSweden Redistribution of wealth and fight against actual accumulation of power, is an Anarchist claim, normally, anarchist fight together with socialist. We both fight accumulation of power in banks and corporations, but difference is that socialist believe in government as manager of those goods/means, and we believe government is useless (as said, redistribute is what I aim for, not management by a central state). Look up the CNT-Barcelona union, and who we asociate with.

[@erlihs.7994]

In my opinion the part where says that a state has the upper hand in power if it has 'a better story' is not a soft power. It sounds more like propaganda, which is something different from the soft power. Am I right? Does anyone have the same opinion or am I completely wrong?

[@streamfan6825]

Soft Power is absolutely nothing but Propoganda...lol...

[@awaliarp8260]

well everything is not going one way.. say hello to Corona virus

[@babasheikh2543]

sound is digitally modified?

[@crumcon]

The only fear i have in the 21st century.. is the fear created by military industrial complex and greedy politicians in the developed countries, they will the one that create fear through greedy politicians as their puppets/spokesmen- woman. We will see exploding of research in military technologies and exploding in military hardware business, making the top 1% richer and richer, especially in the military industry

[@fitobcnfito]

@logossfera No I don’t, I'm an anarchist, but in order to be fear and have real freedom and real free market, we need first to redistribute in equality the means. Right now, situation is not fear or free, and we cannot live corporations do as they will, because what they want is to concentrate even more power, and they can in the actual status quo.

[@fitobcnfito]

@AtheistSweden disculpa por el inglés, gracias por la corrección. Yes I am, but to have a free society, you have to start from freedom and equality, what is not FAIR, is to have all the power accumulated in few people, and now pretend that is a freedom what so ever. You first have to take that power away from the greedy bankers and corporations, and give it away; distribution in equality is the fairest thing to do. Later on: Anarchy and freedom to trade, or not.

[@timcb001]

Respond to this video... When he says "sticks" He is referring to carrots and sticks. Otherwise known as rewards and punishments in psychology. Carrots are rewards and sticks are punishment.

[@farhadata4846]

Bro was even wearing NB at that time, he definitely knew what was up

[@chinhau8702]

Number one China should thank him .He helps China see her problems...

[@theBBlive]

The Rolex advertisement was almost as interesting as the speech.

[@lodproductions90]

HOLY MAN!

[@willowtreephoto]

@WyldOrbit not quite

[@TheGodlessGuitarist]

@fitobcnfito The reality that free market capitalism is far closer to archism than redistribution of wealth. Why? because it allows nature to takes it's course, in which the ruthless will always accumulate power and crush those that make it possible for them. Socialism seeks to intervene and make the world safer, fairer and happier for all, hence the term 'social justice'.

[@reddick627]

maybe we can view this not as a power shift, but as a power diffusion. US will remain its dominance, but its power will also be balanced by the rising power such as EU, BRICs or other non-western nations. then we will see a world with fewer wars and instability.

[@hassanrajput9576]

13:21

[@jurgenfritz4662]

Warum Moral in der Politik wichtig und was von Trump zu halten ist: juergenfritz.com/2020/04/03/warum-moral-in-der-politik-wichtig-ist/

[@sparklymage]

@WyldOrbit Maybe, but that is a highly irrational fear. I myself do not much care if China overtakes the U.S. economically, as long as the U.S. keeps on making the money. So my reaction to that is w/e

[@Master_Zu]

That not what power mean as a human. If you think of power in this way some countries will never see peace Be a human for once That is a lie

[@samahirrao]

cool dude. some projections are a bit wrong. US is smaller economy than China today. Asia GNW more than any other continent. And China leads world technological progress not USA.

[@fitobcnfito]

@TheGodlessGuitarist Then you can be an anarcho-syndicalist, instead of individualist. Mine is a utopia, it's not to be 100% achieved, but any step towards it, is best than increasing tyranny of state/market/money. The accumulation of resources by the few, banns you to enter a fear competition, and that is what goes on today. Some have so much that you are always under their will. We have to take that back into society.

[@eshnajizzle]

@MrLukasart Let's!

[@jerami101]

Oops. He said al-CIA-da was a non governmental actor. I don't know about that!

[@staily2002]

Мне думается, что мир не поделился на ветви, а трансформировался с учётом интерннет технологий!И тут возникает вопрос:"Преобладание Возможностями Технологий и СПОР или цена человеческой жизни за СПОР и Преобладание Возможностями Технологий??"Это существенное обстоятельство и для истории ,политики нравов и силы и, быта людей!Глупо погибать -никому не хочется!Нравы и Cилы пока берут Вверх над технологиями!Странно и страшно звучит ??Но это так!!!Представьте себя, пришедшим на нашу планету из космоса! Вы будете в состоянии ужаса и шока от тех новостей, которые вы узнаете, ведь у Вас там такого и близко -НЕТ, тк ВЫ - высокоразвитая цивилизаия и живёте тем, что каждый занят своим делом и ВСЁ(!!) под контролем!!!А планета Земля -оказалась для Вас -полностью не контроллируемая -во всех отношениях!!!А мы земляне -так и живём,вроде бы контролируемом ....НО .. полностью в бесконтрольном пространстве!!И здесь ключевое слово -ВРОДЕ!!!!!ВДУМАЙТЕСЬ!!КУДА МЫ ДВИЖЕМСЯ И ДЛЯ ЧЕГО???(P.S.переведите этот текст самостоятельно и верно!)

[@kinsmed]

Wow. This guy filled the theater, huh?

[@fitobcnfito]

@TheGodlessGuitarist I don’t care much about labels, I am what I am (I believe in no government, education, empathy, and human kind) never the less, Libertarian as you say, are close to my concept of no government, but as mentioned before, libertarians are not up to that redistribution of power as socialists are (that's why they are conservatives, because they want to perpetuate government by money vs state: not real freedom, and usually, they are all people with money/power)

[@Rocketrich88]

Nice thought Mr. Professor... Too bad it has nothing to do with reality. There are EVIL people on this planet, and GOOD People on this planet... You need the figure out which side you are on...

[@thinksmart44]

@tissuegrinder i can't begin to make you understand how funny i found your comment :P

[@Julianbentley]

That is not soft power...

[@thebytegrill]

KZbin needs a troll button right next to the spam button, with profiles getting troll points.

[@defton24]

mm why i would want a deep sea working rolex watch? mmm i just cat look at my iphone to look the time ... this is weird... watches are obsolete....

[@TheSpankymonkey]

@epSosDE "are non relevant to a human diver" - They are. If a diver with heavy diving gear was to drown and fall to the bottom of the ocean. You can be sure that with a 6000 pound watch on that there is sufficient profit to be made in collecting your body. ;-)

[@ORCA4312]

@fitobcnfito Concentration of power in a few hands IS the natural result of capitalism.

[@NerdyLiberal]

@BroBroDude lawl. You're so right. Why didn't we invade Saudi Arabia again?

[@wolffenhaus]

I wonder how all these 10 dollar words would look on poor, humble people.

[@latestranger]

This is a really interesting talk, but he sounds like a text book. Repetitive with subject headings, focus questions, and gradual introduction of topics. Also, a minorly irritating American bias.

[@drchaffee]

Oh, what a yummy word salad that was ...

[@MrBlaqgold]

@cray32 I know right. Sad that Ted talks has resorted to giving audience to such tripe.

[@dswellhauser]

Absolutely nothing new here and the same cliches about Asia which does not take into account global warming, rising sea levels, collapsing demographics, etc., etc.

[@jnthnbush]

@romeoneverdies illusions.

[@guilhermep8414]

I really disagree with Nye about a power transition of West to East. It’s completely misleading. Germany, for example, is one of the most developed economies of the World and one that belongs to the western traditions and backgroud. And I don't see any economic shift from germany to somewhere in Asia. Not to mention the United States.

[@pasterofmuppets666]

Hahahaha what a fool. Just wait in 20 years.

[@koneye]

Good talk , if you are twelve

[@SeraphimGoose]

@3108711289 Possibly, if you would first elaborate.

[@moredetonation3755]

What's with the laughing at 3:17 when he mentions the Catholic Church?

[@unknowntexan4570]

He is addressing a bunch of Leftists who hate religionists.

[@Gameboob]

He's talking like David Logan at the end there.

[@stephentsang2000]

Don't be silly~ Just get rid of these hollow and practically useless terms~ They are invented by those scholars who want to feign sophisticaton as if they are the only ones who could understand these obstruse terminology~

[@Redkurtain]

I'm with the busshelter on this one. Seriously peeps? Or should I say sheep...s.

[@dahadur]

talks boring.

[@TheGodlessGuitarist]

@fitobcnfito Lastly I would like to point out that anarchism and libertarianism are much more closely allied than anarchism and socialism. Libertarianism is a view that tends to be adopted by convervatives, the right wing. It is an idiotic ideal that libertarians seem not realise is just anarchism and social darwinism under a new name. I could never support such backward views, which are ultimately arrived at by ignorance and fear (generally ganered by right wing media and groups!).

[@SuperiorApostate]

Oh yeah like Drug trade is not controlled by government, LOL.

[@hemmuhendishemkowboy9998]

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[@3108711289]

i think this guy is thoroughly naive. anyone wanna argue?

[@papagunit]

lol, all this guy is doing is selling his "smart power" idea. but how does one implement this "smart power"? sounds cool but, does it actually do anything??

[@boufns8]

Hillary proved it doesn't, womp-womp

[@giansideros]

Well Britain deliberately dismantled and stagnated India's economy when it was under her rule, google [de-industrialisation of India] you'll find plenty of non-Indian research papers from British and American universities on the subject. Prior to British rule, India was the world's largest economy.

[@virenlensh472]

looks like the almighty americans are nervous and are in a state of denial.

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

+Viren Lensh As an American, I think having rivals to keep my government in check is a very good thing.

[@virenlensh472]

+MrC0MPUT3R Agreed. Same as how you guys have helped to keep everyone else in line over the years.

[@thecompetitionistparty8991]

It’s amazing that this guy is wrong and yet he gets so many to listen to and believe his incorrect ideas. But that’s what the competition for power does, it makes people stupid

[@yakuzavaio]

china is whole new world watch out kung fu power :)

[@deangmoxon]

Over raTED.....CorrrupTED.

[@jgmelody]

+dean g. Moxon this makes a lot more sense when youve read his book. power and interdependance by nye and keohane, check it out

[@CusterFlux]

He's as smart as a guy who still believes in fairy tales can be.

[@AKDGsonic]

blablablabla

[@unknowntexan4570]

This is out-of-date.

[@tielohnoms]

lol