Events
EAI and the Korea Foundation co-organized a public lecture given by Professor Joseph S. Nye on February 12th, 2008 at the Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Professor Nye, who is a notable expert in diplomacy and security studies, presented a lecture on "Smart Power and the War on Terror" and Professor Shin-Wha Lee (Korea Univ.) moderated the Q&A session following the lecture. The lecture was attended by a wide variety of scholars, students, NGO leaders, business people and the media. The lecture and Q&A session offered a good opportunity for people to understand and further discuss the present and future of soft power.
Background Information for the Lecture
The world is being driven by four main forces which are continuing to alter the sources and consequences of power in international affairs. The forces of globalization, regionalization, digitalization and democratization have unleashed a complex revolution in information technology, multilateral trade regimes, financial services and political rights. They create together an unprecedented state of "complex interdependence," where "hard" military power becomes increasingly ineffective in shaping actor preferences and determining policy outcomes. What matters as critical as, if not more critical than, military power is "soft power," or capabilities for inspiration, persuasion, and acculturation. In a world of complex interdependence, power resides with an actor whose goals inspire others as universal values, whose interest is seen as a collective good shared by its neighbors, and whose culture is capable of drawing in others as an attractive object of emulation.
Organizers: EAI, The Korea Foundation (KF)
Moderator: Prof. LEE Shin-Wha (Korea Univ.)
About the Lecturer
Joseph S. Nye Jr. is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory neoliberalism developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence. They also explored transnational relations and world politics in an edited volume in the 1970s. More recently, he pioneered the theory of soft power. Nye is currently University Distinguished Service Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and previously served as dean there.
The lecturer, Prof. Nye
The lecturer, Prof. Nye
Prof. Nye answering questions from students
Prof. Nye with special guests
Prof. Nye with students who attended the lecture
