The Future of Power was written by the man who coined the term “soft power” in the 1980s and is an expert on foreign affairs.  Joseph S. Nye Jr. first gained acclaim when he founded, with Robert Keohane, the idea of neoliberalism, as it relates to international relations.  It is one of the two major approaches, with neorealism, that govern the field. Borrowing from the wikipedia entry, neoliberalism is “a school of thought which believes that states are, or at least should be, concerned first […]