Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

Event offered by:
Foreign Policy Association

Event Details

Date:: Monday, May 10, 2004
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:: University Club, College Hall
1 W. 54th St./ 5th Ave
New York, NY
Event type: Lecture / Panel

Speaker: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations

Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard University

- Joseph S. Nye, Jr - Speaker
  Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations and Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  
  Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations and Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He returned to Harvard in December of 1995 after serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, where he won two Distinguished Service medals, and as Chair of the National Intelligence Council. Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964, where he has served as Director of the Center for International Affairs and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. From 1977-79, Nye was Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. A member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy and International Security magazines, he is the author of numerous books and more than 100 articles in professional and policy journals. His most recent books are Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2004), and an anthology, Power in the Global Information Age (2004). 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.