The story has reserved a curious fate to Joseph S. Nye. This theorist of international affairs, which passed through democratic administrations, disappears when the concept that has contributed to its reputation, the soft power, is radically called into question by the president of the country which has drawn the greatest profit, the United States of Donald Trump. Added to this is the fact that the institution where he spent most of his university career, Harvard, is at the same time the target of an anti-elite offensive led by the same tenant of the White House.
Died on Tuesday May 6, Joseph Samuel Nye was born on January 19, 1937 in South Orange, New Jersey. First of all, he follows history studies in Princeton. He accumulates diplomas and distinctions there, such as the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, before joining Harvard. He obtained a doctorate there in 1964, and devoted his oral test to regional integration in East Africa. He taught at the University’s School of Public Administration, renamed by the name of former President John F. Kennedy after his assassination in 1963, and whose management he took over at the height of his career, from 1995 to 2004.
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