Here are key insights into how "soft power" shapes institutions, as told by the scholar who invented the term.

For decades, the US won hearts and minds not with tanks or fighter jets, but with scholarships, foreign aid, immigration ...

Earlier this month, I took the Amtrak from New York City to Boston to meet one of my intellectual heroes, Joseph Nye, the Harvard scholar who more than 30 years ago framed soft power as a distinct ...

How favorably others view the U.S. is part of the country's "soft power"—a term coined by Joseph Nye at Harvard University in the 1980s. It refers to a country's ability to influence other countries' ...

Richard Armitage, a former U.S. deputy secretary of state known as a longtime Asia hand who had close connections with Japan, ...

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. Nye has held numerous government positions serving as Assistant ...

How favorably others view the U.S. is part of the country's "soft power"—a term coined by Joseph Nye at Harvard University in the 1980s. It refers to a country's ability to influence other ...

Joseph Nye is Chairman of the Pacific Forum CSIS Board of Governors and a former US Assistant Secretary of Defense. He is also currently University Distinguished Service Professor at the Harvard ...

Nye is University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and author most recently of Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era (Princeton University Press, 2013 ...