Reminiscences of Joseph S. Nye, Jr. : oral history, 2007.

Biographical Note

University Distinguished Service Professor, Dean of Kennedy School, Harvard University

Scope and Contents

Background: born 1937, childhood in New Jersey; education: B.A. Princeton; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford; Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard; career: Harvard faculty, 1964; Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology 1977-1979, Chair of National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons; North American Vice Chairman of Trilateral Commission, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Clinton Administration, Dean of Kennedy School of Government; Council of Foreign Relations (CFR): Member in 1970, impressions before joining, Vietnam in the CFR, 1980s project, theories on soft power and complex interdependence, differences between CFR and other think tanks and policy schools, response to soft power ideas in the CFR, makeup of CFR membership, end of the Cold War, CFR response to 9/11 attacks

Subjects

• College teachers--United States--Interviews.
• Council on Foreign Relations.
• Interviews.
• Nye, Joseph S.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rosendorf, Neal M., 1960- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

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