Joseph Nye: Public Diplomacy and the Future of Soft Power
The January 6 First Monday Forum will feature one of the Big Thinkers in our field, Professor Joseph S. Nye.
He was the first writer to use the term "Soft Power" (beginning in 1990), and his arguments have helped legions of scholars and practitioners sharpen their focus on what makes Public Diplomacy different from other forms of diplomacy.
The January 6 program will begin at noon ET and be available via Zoom only. It is co-sponsored by PDCA and its partners, the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and the GWU Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication.
To register for the program, click here.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a Deputy Under Secretary of State, and won distinguished service awards from all three agencies. His 20 books include Soft Power, The Future of Power, The Power Game: A Washington Novel, and A Life in the American Century. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2014, Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun.
He was the first writer to use the term "Soft Power" (beginning in 1990), and his arguments have helped legions of scholars and practitioners sharpen their focus on what makes Public Diplomacy different from other forms of diplomacy.
The January 6 program will begin at noon ET and be available via Zoom only. It is co-sponsored by PDCA and its partners, the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and the GWU Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication.
To register for the program, click here.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a Deputy Under Secretary of State, and won distinguished service awards from all three agencies. His 20 books include Soft Power, The Future of Power, The Power Game: A Washington Novel, and A Life in the American Century. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2014, Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun.