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• Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

   

   

  Joseph Nye is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology.  Recent books include Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, Understanding International Conflicts (7^th edition), The Power Game: A Washington Novel, and The Powers to Lead.  He is based in Cambridge, Mass.

  
  

  
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  2009

  New York, NY, May 12, 2009

  Financial Turbulence and U.S. Power, Session One

  Speakers:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor and Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Philip D. Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia
  Presider:	Richard Medley, Chairman, Medley Capital Management

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  A Council on Foreign Relations meeting on "The Global Consequences of the Crisis" and Session One in the Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics on Financial Turbulence and U.S. Power.

  See more in United States, Financial Crises

   

   

  February 26, 2009

  What Matters: Shaping the Future

  Author:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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  In pondering the geopolitical landscape three decades from now, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. looks at the forces shaping the world and suggests how the United States might plan for the future.

  See more in Society and Culture, Grand Strategy

   

  2006

  July/August 2006

  Transformational Leadership and U.S. Grand Strategy

  Author:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

  Foreign Affairs Article — Summary

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  2005

  April 7, 2005

  Moral Choices and Foreign Policy: A Discussion (audio)

  Speaker:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Author, The Power Game: A Washington Novel

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  See more in Society and Culture, U.S. Strategy and Politics

   

   

  April 7, 2005

  Moral Choices and Foreign Policy: A Discussion

  Speaker:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., distinguished service professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author, "The Power Game: a Washington Novel"

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  2004

  July 28, 2004

  Democratic National Convention 2004: Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Policy Discussion

  Speakers:

  Graham T. Allison, director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University Elizabeth C. Economy, director and senior fellow, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Alex Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Sultan of Oman professor of international relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Benn Steil, acting director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and Andre Meyer senior fellow in international economics, Council on Foreign Relations

  Introductory Speakers:

  Walter Shorenstein, founder, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University William J. Perry, professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; former United States secretary of defense (1994-97)

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  See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics

   

   

  May/June 2004

  The Decline of America's Soft Power

  Author:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

  Foreign Affairs Article — Summary

  See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Media and Foreign Policy

   

   

  April 12, 2004

  Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

  Speaker:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author, "Soft Power"

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  See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics

   

  2003

  September 25, 2003

  The U.S. National Security Strategy: A Debate

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  July/August 2003

  U.S. Power and Strategy After Iraq

  Author:	Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

  Foreign Affairs Article — Summary

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