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Joseph Nye received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1958. He did postgraduate work at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1964, and in 1995, he became dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He is now distinguished service professor at Harvard University. From 1977 to 1979, Dr. Nye served as deputy to the U.S. under secretary of state for security assistance, science, and technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In recognition of his service, he received the highest Department of State commendation, the Distinguished Honor Award. In 1993 and 1994, he was chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence estimates for the president. He was awarded the Intelligence Community's Distinguished Service Medal. In 1994 and 1995, he served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, where he also won the Distinguished Service Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Diplomacy, Dr. Nye has also been a senior fellow of the Aspen Institute, director of the Aspen Strategy Group, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission. He has served as a director of the Institute for East-West Security Studies, as a director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of International Economics, and as U.S. representative on the United Nations Advisory Committee on Disarmament Affairs. He has also been a trustee of Wells College and Radcliffe College. A member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy and International Security, he is the author of numerous books and more than 150 articles in professional journals. His most recent publications are Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (Public Affairs, 2004) and an anthology, Power in the Global Information Age (Routledge, 2004). In addition, he has authored articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. He has appeared on programs such as ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America, CNN's Larry King Live, CBS's Evening News, and the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, as well as Australian, British, French, Swiss, Japanese, and Korean television. |
