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Profile

Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, is also the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations and former Dean of the Kennedy School. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, did postgraduate work at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. In 2004, he published Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics; Understanding International Conflict (5th edition); and The Power Game: A Washington Novel.

Courses

Fall

• IGA-301 Leadership and 20th Century American Foreign Policy

Fall Mod1

• IGA-225M Power in the 21st Century

Media Expertise

Joseph Nye welcomes media inquiries on the following subjects:

• Asia
• Defense
• Diplomacy
• Europe
• Foreign Policy
• History
• Intelligence
• International Politics
• Leadership
• Nuclear Weapons
• Terrorism
• United Nations

Additional experts may be found by clicking on each subject listed. You may contact faculty directly or if you need assistance contact the Communications Office at 617-495-1115.

Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

• Academic Journals
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Recovering American Leadership." Survival 50.1 (February/March 2008): 55-68.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Public Diplomacy and Soft Power." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616.1 (March 2008): 94-109.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The Costs and Benefits of In and Outers" in Risks and Opportunities of Crossing the Academy/Policy Divide, Ed. J. Ann Tickner and Andrei Tsygankov. The International Studies Review 10.1 (March 2008): 155-177.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Smart Power and the 'War on Terror'." Asia-Pacific Review 15.1 (May 2008): 1-8.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Security and Smart Power." American Behavioral Scientist 51.9 (May 2008): 1351-1356.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Picking a President." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas 10 (Fall 2008): 19-28.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Smart Power." New Perspectives Quarterly 26.2 (Spring 2009): 7-9.
• Book Chapters
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Foreword." Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States. Ed. Yasushi Watanabe and David McConnell. M.E. Sharpe, 2008, ix-xiv.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "International Relations: the Relevance of Theory to Practice." Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Ed. Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. Oxford University Press, 2008, 648-660.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S., and Wang Jisi. "The Rise of China's Soft Power and Its Implications for the United States." Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the US-China Relationship. Ed. Richard Rosecrance and Gu Guoliang. PublicAffairs, 2009.
• Magazine and Newspaper Articles
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "American Power after the Financial Crisis." Foresight Project. November 2008.
• Op-Eds
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Taiwan and Fear in US-China Ties." Taipei Times, January 14, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Just Don't Mention the War on Terrorism." International Herald Tribune, February 8, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Judging the Capacity to Govern." Boston Globe, March 14, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Hard vs. Soft Power: Contenders in the US Presidential Race Must Respond to a Changed World." Nepali Times, March 14-20, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "'Smart Power', The Only Path to Effective Leadership." The Daily Star, March 17, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "America Must Learn the Hard Facts of Soft Powers." The South China Morning Post, March 18, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Is Bush Our Woodrow Wilson?" The Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Good Leadership is Deciding How to Decide." Financial Times, April 1, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The Mystery of Political Charisma." Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Balancing Asia's Rivals." The Korea Times, June 11, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Japan Dialogue Key to U.S. Interests in Asia." Asahi Shimbun, June 28, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Losing Power." Al-Ahram Weekly, July 3, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Follow the Leader: We Must Go Beyond the 'Big Man' Approach." The Globe and Mail, July 11, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Quirks of Nurture." The South China Morning Post, July 14, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Soft Power and Beijing Olympics." Real Clear World, August 24, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Guns and Gold of August." The Korean Times , also in The Turkish Times and The Journal of Turkish Weekly, September 2, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "America's Crisis Election." Korea Times, October 13, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Beware an October Surprise from Bin Laden." Financial Times, October 15, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The New President and the Future of American Power." Daily Star, November 7, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "America Needs a New Style of Leadership: It's Time to Retire the 'Big Man', Heroic Warrior Model of Leadership." US News and World Report, November 7, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Cyber Insecurity." Daily News Egypt, December 14, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Obama Meets the World." Daily News Egypt, December 23, 2008.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The Dark Side of Self-Determination." Daily News, January 11, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The U.S. Can Reclaim 'Smart Power'." Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "How Obama Leads." Daily Times, February 11, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Networked Leaders." Guatemala Times, March 10, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Scholars on the Sidelines." Washington Post, April 13, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Which Globalization Will Survive?" Korea Times, April 13, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Taking Democracy to the People." Globe and Mail (Canada), May 13, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Nature and Nurture in Leadership." Harvard Crimson, June 3, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "How Do You Teach and Learn Successful Leadership in a Democracy?" Daily Star (Lebanon), June 12, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Will US-Japan Alliance Survive?" Korea Times, July 14, 2009.
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Making of Great Communicators." Korea Times, August 12, 2009.
• Public Testimony
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. Joseph Nye's Testimony from Hearings on 'Japan's Changing Role'. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives (June 25, 2009).
• Research Papers/Reports
  • Abshire, David M., Norman R. Augustine, Robert D. Blackwill, Dennis C. Blair, Charles G. Boyd, Ashton Carter, Daniel W. Christman, Wesley K. Clark, Ruth A. David, Michèle Flournoy, Leon Fuerth, Newt Gingrich, James R. Locher III, James M. Loy, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, John McLaughlin, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Carlos Pascual, Thomas R. Pickering, Brent Scowcroft, Jeffrey H. Smith, James B. Steinberg, and Ken Weinstein. "Ensuring Security in an Unpredictable World: Project on National Security Reform - Preliminary Findings." Project on National Security Reform, July 2008.
• Reviews
  • Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "A Climate for Change." Review of Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas L. Friedman. Washington Post, September 7, 2008.

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