Joseph Nye

But soon after that, uh, I-- It was a very small group of us who worked on terrorism, so I was getting so many calls from media, small group by the way all around the world there just weren’t...It just wasn't a popular topic and, uh, I c-I couldn't answer all the calls that were coming in and so the dean's office took over my phone and, uh, I remember just being so exhausted even though I, I realize in retrospect that I was quite dissociated that day as I think many people were and indeed those weeks I remember just lying on the floor i wou-in th-in the middle of the day.

I was so exhausted from I guess well all the queries but also the, the trauma that I wasn't really feeling and my Dean at the time Joe Nye, uh, the late Joe Nye actually asked me to cancel my classes and go to New York and go on TV he thought it was a public service and he sent one of our PR peop-...

One of our publicist at Kennedy school with me and she still is traumatized by that experience because we flew to New York There was almost no one on the plane and New York there was almost no one on the street Uh We--it, it was a couple days before planes were flying but it was a surreal experience and Well That's what I remember Not to get into the Policy responses or any of that Do you remember when it was clear that it was In fact A terrorist attack do you remember kind of Your Top Line Thought About

AboutWhat you thought the future might hold.

In the 11th century, they erupted, they conquered the Shang, they established their dominance over the entire northern part of what is today China, most of the Yellow River Basin.

Then, gradually, they started losing their real military power, but they maintained their rule still big before the springs and autumns for three centuries because they had what Joseph Nye, the late United States political scientist, termed very nicely the soft power.

You know, Nye spoke about soft power, which comprises institutional, ideological, and cultural power, and the Zhou were ideological.

They claimed that they have the mandate of heaven, the kings of Zhou bore the honorific title sons of heaven, and nobody dared to proclaim himself son of heaven, not a single political leader.

In the 11th century, they erupted, they conquered the Shang, they established their dominance over the entire northern part of what is today China, most of the Yellow River Basin.

And then gradually they started losing their real military power, but they maintained their rule still big before the springs and autumns for three centuries because they had what Joseph Nye, the late United States political scientist, termed very nicely the soft power.

You know, Nye spoke about soft power, which comprises institutional, ideological, and cultural power.

And the Zhou were ideological.

In the 11th century, they erupted, they conquered the Shang, they established their dominance over the entire northern part of what is today China, most of the Yellow River Basin.

Gradually, they started losing their real military power, but they maintained their rule still before the spring and the autumn for three centuries because they had what Joseph Nye, the late United States political scientist, termed very nicely the soft power.

You know, Nye spoke about soft power, which comprises institutional, ideological, and cultural power, and the Zhou were ideological.

They claimed that they have the mandate of heaven.