Approaching Power and Understanding Leadership trough The Lens of Joseph Nye. Interview with Joseph Nye.
Dear Professor Nye: Thank you very much for accepting this interview with Norteamérica. As you are aware, our journal is a trilingual Mexican academic journal on regional studies, committed to the study of North America and the world, distributed and read both in the three NAFTA countries and in Europe and Latin America. For our readers concerned with the state of world affairs, it will be of great interest to have the insights of one of the most renowned analysts and prolific writers on international and regional affairs. I am sure that this interview is going to be widely read by our public. Thank you very much for your kindness in responding to the following questions. What is your diagnosis of the current state of world affairs in terms of the use of power? Joseph Nye: Power always depends upon context, and in today’s world, power is differently distributed in different contexts. In the dimension of military relations among states, the distribution of power i...