Joseph S. Nye Jr. - Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is Dean Emeritus of the Kennedy School, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, and a member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors. He joined the Harvard Faculty in 1964 and has served as Director of the Center for International Affairs, Dillon Professor of International Affairs, and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
From 1977 to 1979 he served as Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In 1993 and 1994 he was chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence estimates for the President. In 1994 and 1995 he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In all three agencies, he received distinguished service awards.
Dr. Nye is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Diplomacy and a member of the Executive Committee on the Trilateral Commission. He has served as Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, Director of the Institute for East-West Security Studies, Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the American representative on the United Nations Advisory Committee on Disarmament Affairs, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of International Economics.
Dr. Nye received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1958. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. In addition to teaching at Harvard, Dr. Nye has also taught for brief periods in Geneva, Ottawa, and London.
He has lived for extended periods in Europe, East Africa, and Central America.
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The Powers To Lead: Presidential Leadership in Foreign Policy with Joseph Nye.
How can the next U.S. president revitalize American influence and leadership in the world with a mix hard power, or force, and soft power, or attraction to our society and way of life? What qualities give a leader the ability to successfully combine these types of power in proportions that vary with different situations?
One of America's most influential scholars of international relations, Joseph Nye, joins the Council to discuss his new book, The Powers to Lead, and to offer insight into the qualities necessary for the next U.S. president to effectively merge hard and soft power into smart power and intelligent global leadership- World Affairs Council of Northern California