Joseph Nye and the End of the American Century

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  I'm Dan Kurtz-Valen, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.

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  The U.S.

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  had lots of soft power before Trump.

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  China had little soft power.

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  And the use of coercive power, which Trump emphasizes, disrupts U.S.

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  friendship patterns and alliances, including with the countries with which we are most in common.

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  So Trump is throwing away American soft power.

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  For decades, Joe Nye was one of the true giants of American foreign policy.

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  His career in government and in the academy spent epochs,

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  and his body of work as a scholar of international relations remains unparalleled.

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  Nye, who passed away at the age of 88 in May,

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  served in the Carter and Clinton administrations and headed the Harvard Kennedy School for nearly two decades.

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  But he may be best known for his contributions to the study of international relations.

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  Nigh coined the term soft power and co-authored power and interdependence,

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  a path-breaking analysis of geopolitics with Robert Cohane.

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  Fifty years later, Nigh and Cohane, longtime colleagues and friends,

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  were united for a final time in foreign affairs pages to argue that President Donald Trump's single-minded fixation on hard power risks weakening the real sources of U.S.

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  strength.

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  It is a fitting, if not exactly valid, victory culmination of a life in the American Century.

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  Over the decades,

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