Joseph Nye

American political scientist · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1937 to 2025 · aged 88

Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. was an American political scientist. He and Robert Keohane co-founded the international relations theory of neoliberalism, which they developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence.

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2025Died6 May 20252014Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver StarAward2013Honorary Doctor of the Shandong UniversityAward2010Doctor Honoris Causa of Keiō UniversityAward2000Commander of the National Order of MeritAward1958Rhodes ScholarshipAward1937Born19 January 1937

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Nye in 2013

Nye in 2015

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Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star2014

Honorary Doctor of the Shandong University2013

Doctor Honoris Causa of Keiō University2010

Commander of the National Order of Merit2000

Rhodes Scholarship1958

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They also explored transnational relations and world politics in an edited volume in the 1970s. More recently, he pioneered the theory of soft power. His notion of "smart power" became popular with the use of this phrase by members of the Clinton Administration and the Obama Administration.

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United States