Joseph Nye: Power

Joseph Nye is American political scientist. Explore interesting quotes on power.
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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.”

Joseph Nye

Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 8, The Information Revolution and the Diffusion of Power, p. 246.

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

Joseph Nye

Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 3, Balance of Power and World War I, p. 60.

Love

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

Joseph Nye

Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 3, Balance of Power and World War I, p. 61.

Behavior , Change

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

Joseph Nye

Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 8, The Information Revolution and the Diffusion of Power, p. 252.

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

Joseph Nye

Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 6, Intervention, Institutions, and Regional and Ethnic Conflicts, p. 187.