Joseph Nye
Also known as Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr., Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
American political scientist
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Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. (January 19, 1937 – May 6, 2025) was an American political scientist. He and Robert Keohane co-founded the international relations theory of neoliberalism, which they developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence. They also explored transnational relations and world politics in an edited volume in the 1970s. More recently, he pioneered the theory of soft power. His notion of "smart power" ("the ability to combine hard and soft power into a successful strategy") became popular with the use of this phrase by members of the Clinton Administration and the Obama Administration.
Nye was the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he later held the position of University Distinguished Service Professor, emeritus. In October 2014, US Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Nye to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He was also a member of the Defense Policy Board. He was a Harvard faculty member since 1964. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a foreign fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
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1937 births2025 deathsAlumni of Exeter College, OxfordAmerican international relations scholarsAmerican political scientistsAmerican Rhodes ScholarsAmerican Unitarian UniversalistsAtlantic CouncilCenter for a New American SecurityCommissioners of the Global Commission on the Stability of CyberspaceCorresponding fellows of the British Academy