Books

The Future of Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2010)

The Powers to Lead (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)

The Power Game: A Washington Novel (New York: Public Affairs, 2004)

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2004)

Power in the Global Information Age: From Realism to Globalization (London: Routledge, 2004)

The “Democracy Deficit” in the Global Economy: Enhancing the Legitimacy and Accountability of Global Institutions, A Report to the Trilateral Commission: 57, co-authored with Jessica P. Einhorn, Bela Kadar, Hisashi Owada, Luis Rubio, and Soogil Young (Washington, D.C.: The Trilateral Commission, 2003)

Addressing the New International Terrorism: Prevention, Intervention, and Multilateral Cooperation, A Report the Trilateral Commission: 56, co-authored with Yukio Satoh and Paul Wilkinson (Washington, D.C.: The Trilateral Commission, 2003)

The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go it Alone (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History, 7th ed. (New York: Longman, 2008)

Global Competition After the Cold War: A Reassessment of Trilateralism, co-authored with Kurt Biedenkopf and Motoo Shiina (New York: The Trilateral Commission, 1991)

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 1990)

Nuclear Ethics (New York: The Free Press, 1986)

Hawks, Doves and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, co-authored with Graham Allison and Albert Carnesale (New York: Norton, 1985)

Living with Nuclear Weapons: A Report by the Harvard Nuclear Study Group (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983)

Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition, co-authored with Robert O. Keohane (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1977; 3d ed., New York: Longman, 2000)

Peace in Parts: Integration and Conflict in Regional Organization (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1971)

Pan Africanism and East African Integration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965)

After the Cold War: International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe, 1989-1991, co-authored with Robert O. Keohane and Stanley Hoffman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993)

Edited Volumes

For the People: Can We Fix Public Service? co-edited with John D. Donahue (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003)

Market-Based Governance: Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside, and Downside, co-edited with John D. Donahue (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002)

Governance in a Globalizing World, co-edited with John D. Donahue (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000)

democracy.com?: Governance in A Networked World, co-edited with Elaine Ciulla Kamarck (Hollis, NH: Hollis Publishing, 1999)

Why People Don’t Trust Government, co-edited with Philip D. Zelikow and David C. King (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)

After the Storm: Lessons from the Gulf War, co-edited with Roger K. Smith (Lanham, MD: Madison Books and the Aspen Strategy Group of The Aspen Institute, 1992)

Fateful Visions: Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe, co-edited with Graham T. Allison and Albert Carnesale (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988)

On the Defensive?: The Future of SDI, co-edited with James A. Schear, Jr. (Lanham, MD: The Aspen Strategy Group and University Press of America, 1988)

Seeking Stability in Space: Anti-Satellite Weapons and the Evolving Space Regime, co-edited with James A. Schear, Jr. (Lanham, MD: The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and University Press of America, 1987)

Global Dilemmas, co-edited with Samuel P. Huntington (Cambridge, MA: The Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and University Press of America, 1985)

The Making of America’s Soviet Policy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., ed., (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984)

Energy and Security, co-edited with David A. Deese (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1980)

Nuclear Power Issues and Choices: A Report of the Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Member (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977)

Canada and the United States: Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations, co-edited with Annette Baker Fox and Alfred O. Hero, Jr., a special edition of International Organization, Autumn 1974, Vol. 28, No. 4

Conflict Management by International Organizations, co-authored with Ernst B. Haas and Robert L. Butterworth (Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press, 1972)

Transnational Relations and World Politics, co-authored and co-edited with Robert O. Keohane (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970)

International Regionalism, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., ed. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1968)