"Joe Nye is one of the most astute observers of the changing nature of international politics. His new book provides an exellent framework for viewing [the] U.S.['s] role in the 21st century."
--- Madeleine Albright

"[Written] in plain and simple prose, refreshingly free of jargon, as if to reach out beyond the hard-faced realists of the White House to a wider public."
--- The Washington Post Book 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 Times of Books