Joseph Nye

Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American

The 2011 Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) survey of over 1,700 international relations scholars ranked Nye as the sixth most influential scholar in the field of international relations in the past 20 years.^[6] He was also ranked as one of the most influential figures in American foreign policy. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine included him on its list of top global thinkers.^[7] In September 2014, Foreign Policy reported that international relations scholars and policymakers ranked Nye as one of the field's most influential scholars.^[8]

Life and career

Education

Nye attended Morristown Prep (now the

Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964 and served as Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1985 to 1990 and as Associate Dean for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1989 to 1992. Nye also served as Director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1989 to 1993 and Dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1995 to 2004. Nye is currently (as of July 2018) University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus.^[12]

Nye and his colleague Keohane have been characterized as key figures in the development of a discipline of international political economy, largely as a result of their authorship of Power and Interdependence.^[11] Nye's influences include Karl Deutsch and Ernst Hass.^[13]

From 1977 to 1979, Nye was Deputy to the

In October 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Nye to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The group meets periodically to discuss strategic questions and to provide the Secretary and other senior Department officials with independent informed perspectives and ideas.^[3] In November 2014, Nye was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star in recognition of his "contribution to the development of studies on Japan-U.S. security and to the promotion of the mutual understanding between Japan and the United States."^[17]

Nye serves as a Commissioner for the

Nye coined the term soft power in the late 1980s, and it first came into widespread usage following a piece he wrote in Foreign Policy in 1990. Nye has consistently written for Project Syndicate since 2002.^[20]

Personal life

Nye and his wife, Molly Harding Nye, have three adult sons.^[21] He is a member of a Unitarian Universalist Association church.^[22]

Significant views

Nye is a

In Nye's view, analysis of collective security systems requires consideration of economic matters.[23] Matters of collective economic security include common goods, the presence or absence of trade restrictions, and distribution of profits between countries.^[23]

Bibliography

• Pan Africanism and East African integration (Harvard University Press
  , 1965)
• Peace in Parts: Integration and Conflict in Regional Organization (
  Little Brown and Company
  , 1971)
• Transnational Relations and World Politics, co-authored with Robert O. Keohane (Harvard University Press, 1972)
• Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition, co-authored with Keohane (Little Brown and Company, 1977; Longman, 2000)
• Living with Nuclear Weapons. A Report by the Harvard Nuclear Study Group (Harvard University Press, 1983)
• Hawks, Doves and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, co-authored with Graham Allison and Albert Carnesale (Norton, 1985)
• Nuclear Ethics (The Free Press, 1986)
• Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (Basic Books, 1990)
• Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History, 7th ed. (Longman, 2008)
• The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go it Alone (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Power in the Global Information Age: From Realism to Globalization (Routledge, 2004)
• Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (PublicAffairs, 2004)
• "Soft Power and American Foreign Policy." Political Science Quarterly 119.2 (2004): 255-70.
• The Power Game: A Washington Novel (PublicAffairs, 2004)
• The Powers to Lead (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• The Future of Power (PublicAffairs, 2011)
• Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era (Princeton University Press, 2013)
• Is the American Century Over? (Polity, 2015)
• Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020);
• A Life in The American Century (Polity, 2024)

Essays and reporting

• Nye, Joseph S. Jr. (June 2013). "Do Presidents matter?". Dispatches. Leadership. The Atlantic. 311 (5): 13–15. Retrieved July 3, 2015.

See also

• Globalism

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Government offices
Preceded by Fritz Ermarth	Chair of the National Intelligence Council 1993–1994	Succeeded by Christine Williams
Political offices
Preceded by Chas Freeman	Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs 1994–1995	Succeeded by Franklin Kramer