Nye Joseph

Early years (before graduation)

Career (milestones of an academic or other career)

Joseph Nye received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1958 . He wrote a doctoral dissertation for the Rhodes Scholarship and then earned a Ph.D. in politics from Harvard University . In 1964, he began his teaching career at Harvard University and taught one of the largest and most important courses at his faculty. And in December 1995, Nye became dean of the Harvard Institute of Public Administration. John F. Kennedy.

In addition, he held high government posts: in 1977-1979. - Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State for the Support of Security, Science and Technology, Chairman of the National Security Council Group on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; in 1993-1994 - Chairman of the National Intelligence Council; in 1994-1995 - Deputy Minister of Defense for International Security. During the presidential campaign, John Kerry claimed to be a national security adviser. This scientist was able to effectively combine his theoretical interests with practical politics.

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Diplomacy, D. Nye was also a senior member of the Aspen Institute, director of the Aspen Strategic Group, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission. He managed to visit the director of the East-West Security Research Institute, the director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the member of the advisory committee of the Institute of World Economy, and the American representative on the United Nations Disarmament Advisory Committee. Moreover, Nye was one of the trustees of Wells College and Radcliffe College.

Member of the editorial boards of the journals of Foreign Policy and International Security, Nye is the author of numerous books and more than one hundred and fifty articles in professional journals. His most recent books are Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2004), and Limited Edition, For the People: Can We Fix Public Service? (2003). He has also published on political issues in the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribunes , The Wall Street Journal , and The Financial Times . He has performed on television programs such as Nightline ABC and Good Morning America, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and also on Australian, British, French, Swiss, Japanese and Korean television.

In addition to teaching at Harvard, Nye also taught for brief periods in Geneva, Ottawa, and London. He is an honorary fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. He lived for extended periods in Europe, East Africa, Central America, and traveled to more than 90 countries.

The popularity of Nye and his co-author Robert Keohane was brought by the book Transnational Relations and World Politics, published under their editorship in 1972, combining the works of scientists who believed that states were not the only participants in international relations. In 1977, the book “Power and Independence: World Politics in Development” was published, which laid the foundation for the neoliberal school of international relations.

It is Joseph Nye who owns the concept of “Soft power”, which has been developed since the 1980s and has become one of the most significant concepts in world politics, economics, and diplomacy. The concept of “soft power” gains particular relevance after the US invasion of Iraq.

Nye's focus is on foreign policy issues related to globalization and universal interdependence, armaments and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, US policy towards Asia (especially China and Japan), as well as governance and power issues both within the state and on the world stage in conditions of globalization and the information revolution. At the School to them. Kennedy initiated the scientific project "Management System for the 21st Century" in order to investigate the reasons for the changing role of governments in politics and make appropriate recommendations.

According to Nye, in the modern world, distrust is growing not only in the governments of nation-states, but also in social and political institutions because of: demystification of power; changes in the balance between libertarian (that is, protecting the priority of the individual, his rights and freedoms) and communitarian (defending the interests of individual communities or society and its structures as a whole) values ​​in favor of the former; low efficiency of government intervention in the economy, etc.

Thanks to the work of Joseph Nye and his supporters, the foundation of the neoliberal school of international politics was laid. It was his authorship that the concept of “soft power” belongs to, which has become one of the fundamental theories in global, world politics, economics and diplomacy. In 2005, J. Nye was recognized as one of the ten most influential intellectuals in the United States in the field of international relations.

One of the main opponents of D. Nye is the neoconservatives, which, however, is quite natural, in view of the fact that he himself is one of the main ideologists of neoliberalism.

His theory of “soft power” is also sometimes criticized. The essence of this criticism is this: Joseph Nye sees the main advantage of “soft power” over the military or financial power of the state in its ability to attract someone thanks to the value content of foreign policy, rather than a simple set of material leverage. Nye considers three components with which the state can influence: culture (where it is popular, as in the case of American pop culture or French haute couture), values ​​(not only declaring them, but also following them) and foreign policy as such. But the conclusions of the American researcher cause an ambiguous reaction. Many ^{[ who? ]} indicate that American public diplomacy often resembles propaganda, especially with regard to the Iraq war. Joseph Nye himself has repeatedly criticized the official rhetoric of the US State Department. According to the scientist, the failures in American public diplomacy are explained precisely by the fact that the real "Soft Power" possessed by the United States is replaced by ineffective state propaganda.

Married to Molly Harding Nye, art consultant and sculptor. They have three adult sons. His hobbies include fishing, hiking, squash, skiing, landscaping, and working on his farm in New Hampshire.

Author and co-author:

• Nye J. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: Public Affairs Group, 2004).

(published in Russian. - Joseph Nye Flexible Power. How to succeed in world politics. - M .: Trend, 2006. - 397 p.)

• Addressing the New International Terrorism: Prevention, Intervention, and Multilateral Cooperation, co-authored with Yukio Satoh and Paul Wilkinson (Washington, DC: The Trilateral Commission, 2003).
• The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go it Alone (New York: Oxford University Press , 2002).
• Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History, 4th ed. (New York: Longman, 2002).
• Global Competition After the Cold War: A Reassessment of Trilateralism, co-authored with Kurt Biedenkopf and Motoo Shiina (New York: The Trilateral Commission, 1991).
• Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, (New York: Basic Books, 1990).
• Nuclear Ethics, (New York: The Free Press, 1986).
• Hawks, Doves and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, co-authored with Graham Allison and Albert Carnesale (New York: Norton, 1985).
• Living with Nuclear Weapons. A Report by the Harvard Nuclear Study Group. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983).
• Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition, co-authored with Robert O. Keohane (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1977; 3d edition with additional material, New York: Longman, 2000).
• Peace in Parts: Integration and Conflict in Regional Organization. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1971).
• Pan Africanism and East African Integration. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965).

Author / Editor:

• For the People: Can We Fix Public Service? co-edited with John D. Donahue (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
• Market-Based Governance: Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside, and Downside, co-edited with John D. Donahue (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
• Governance in a Globalizing World, co-edited with John D. Donahue (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
• democracy.com? Governance in A Networked World, co-edited with Elaine Ciulla Kamarck (Hollis Publishing, 1999)
• Why People Don't Trust Government, co-edited with Philip D. Zelikow and David C. King (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
• After the Storm: Lessons from the Gulf War, edited with Roger K. Smith (Lanham, MD: Madison Books and the Aspen Strategy Group of The Aspen Institute, 1992).
• Fateful Visions: Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe, co-edited with Graham T. Allison and Albert Carnesale (Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988).
• On the defensive? The Future of SDI, co-edited with James A. Schear, Jr. (Lanham, MD: The Aspen Strategy Group and University Press of America, 1988).
• Seeking Stability in Space: Anti-Satellite Weapons and the Evolving Space Regime, co-edited with James A. Schear, Jr. (Lanham, MD: The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and University Press of America, 1987).
• Global Dilemmas, co-edited with Samuel P. Huntington (Cambridge: The Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and University Press of America, 1985).
• The Making of America's Soviet Policy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., ed., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984).
• Energy and Security, co-edited with David A. Deese (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1980).
• Nuclear Power Issues and Choices, A Report of the Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group (Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Member) (Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977).
• Canada and the United States: Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations, co-edited with Annette Baker Fox and Alfred O. Hero, Jr., a special edition of International Organization, Autumn 1974, vol. 28, no. four.
• Conflict Management by International Organizations, co-authored with Ernst B. Haas and Robert L. Butterworth (Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press, 1972).
• Transnational Relations and World Politics. Co-authored and co-edited with Robert O. Keohane (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970).
• International Regionalism. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., ed. (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1968).

Specifically, there are no books and works about the person of Joseph Nye. However, the pen of Nye himself owns the art book The Power Game, in which, despite all the denials of the author, the appearance and character of the main character, as well as partially the other heroes of this work, is clearly based on his personality.

• Harvard University website profile
• Profile at http://www.politico.com
• Personal blog at http://www.huffingtonpost.com
• Brief biography on the website http://www.politnauka.org
• Brief biography and publications on the website http://www.russ.ru
• Brief biography and other materials on the website http://www.uuworld.org