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Khan Academy: Nye on Power Shifts and the 21st Century Instructional VideoKhan Academy: Nye on Power Shifts and the 21st Century Instructional Video
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9th - 10th
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Khan Academy: Nye on Power Shifts and the 21st Century

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Nick Burns, professor at Harvard Kennedy School has a conversation with professor and author of The Future of Power Joseph Nye about how the world is seeing a power transition from West to East as well as a power diffusion from government to society. [14:02]

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asia, climate change, foreign policy, oil

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cyber warfare, doctors without borders, european union, gates foundation, horizontal v. vertical shifts, information age, information revolution, iraq war, khan academy, middle east, moore's law, ngo's, power diffusion, power transition, rebalancing of power, global organizations, globalization (1945 to 2000)

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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