Joseph Nye

Harvard University

Dr. Joseph S. Nye Jr., formerly Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, is the University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus at the Kennedy School. 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. Professor Nye is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers. He is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory of neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Of his influence on foreign policy, Tufts professor Daniel Drezner has written: “All roads to understanding American foreign policy run through Joe Nye.” His most recent book is Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (2020).

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Has Trump’s Foreign Policy Been Successful?
Randall Schweller & Joseph Nye
October 12, 2020
Do Morals Matter in Foreign Policy?
Joseph Nye & Robert Jervis
January 14, 2020