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Joseph Nye (born 1937) is the founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory (neoliberalism) developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Nye is currently a professor of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and previously served as dean there. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University and, after studying PPE as a Rhodes Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford, obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard. He attended Morristown Prep (now the Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, NJ and graduated in 1954.
Nye has published many works in recent years, the most recent of which being The Means to Success in World Politics in March 2004 and The Paradox of American Power in April 2003. Nye first coined the term soft power in the late 1980s; it first came into widespread usage following a piece written by Nye in Foreign Affairs in the early 1990s.
Nye also served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Clinton Administration, and was considered by many to be the preferred choice for National Security Advisor in the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry. He is widely recognized as one of the foremost liberal thinkers on foreign policy, and is seen by some as the counter to renowned Harvard conservative Samuel P. Huntington.
In 2005 Nye was voted one of the ten most influential scholars of international relations.
Nye is on the Advisory board of USC Center on Public Diplomacy as well as on the International Editorial Board of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
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"Joseph Nye"