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Joseph Nye

1937 - 2025

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Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. (January 19, 1937 – May 6, 2025) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Nye is the 13th most popular political scientist (up from 16th in 2019), the 1,596th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,612th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Political Scientist.

Joseph Nye is most famous for developing the concept of "soft power," which refers to a country's ability to influence others through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion. He also co-founded the theory of neoliberal institutionalism in international relations.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Joseph Nye ranks 13 out of 46. Before him are Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Georg Jellinek, Johan Galtung, Harold Lasswell, and Ralf Dahrendorf. After him are Leonard Hobhouse, Maurice Duverger, John Mearsheimer, David Easton, Gene Sharp, and Muhammad Asad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Joseph Nye ranks 71. Before him are Lionel Jospin, Andrei Konchalovsky, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Thomas Pynchon, Paolo Conte, and Roger Zelazny. After him are Richard Møller Nielsen, Anatoly Sobchak, Rubin Carter, Rafael Moneo, George Carlin, and Maryanne Trump Barry. Among people deceased in 2025, Joseph Nye ranks 45. Before him are Vitold Fokin, Oleg Gordievsky, Alfred Brendel, Luis Galván, Oliviero Toscani, and Jules Wijdenbosch. After him are Hugo Gatti, David Lodge, Jair da Costa, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Sam Nujoma, and Alasdair MacIntyre.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Nye ranks 1,596 out of 20,380. Before him are Sissy Spacek (1949), John Cheever (1912), Alyson Hannigan (1974), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), and Thomas Curtis (1873). After him are Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Charley Paddock (1900), Woody Harrelson (1961), Grace Zabriskie (1941), Blake Edwards (1922), and Gordon Moore (1929).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Joseph Nye ranks 5. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington (1927), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Francis Fukuyama (1952), and Harold Lasswell (1902). After him are John Mearsheimer (1947), Gene Sharp (1928), Graham Allison (1940), James Flynn (1934), Charles Murray (1943), Norman Finkelstein (1953), and William Graham Sumner (1840).

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