This title offers a critical appraisal of America's role in the present and future. It explains that challenges to America's power will come in the form of the very things that have made the last ten years so prosperous: the information revolution and globalization.

Nye, former assistant secretary of defense under Clinton and current dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, offers a prescription for America's new role in the world that calls for a broader, more responsible, and cooperative relationship with the rest of the world.

"Could not be more timely.... Nye's objection to unilateralism, or realism in the sense used here, is not that they are conceptually insecure; his point is that they just don't work."--New York Review of Books