Joseph S. Nye Jr., a Harvard scholar who coined the term “soft power” to describe how cultural forces, humanitarian aid and ...

Nye, a towering scholar and policymaker who spent the last 60 years at the center of international security debates in ...

Power comes in many guises. As political anthropologist James Scott insightfully argued, even the seemingly powerless are not wholly devoid of agency. Power is not ...

The inventor of the term "soft power," Joseph Nye, has died at the age of 88, at a time when his concept of gentle influence ...

And on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, the world of International Relations lost one of its intellectual architects—not of steel-and-firepower realism, but of something subtler: influence, attraction, and ...

China is a manufacturing juggernaut, but the sector’s growth is slowing. As Beijing and Washington talk trade, what can America learn from China’s experience?

I was first exposed to Joe Nye as a junior faculty member at the Kennedy School. I had heard he had served in government, ...

Crowds of foreign tourists make Florence, Italy, hard to visit. The city government would like to replace some of them with ...

It’s unlikely the U.S. and China can erase the tension in their geopolitical rivalry. But they can manage it. The current ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope born in the United States, but his Peruvian nationality bridges North and South America. His ...

A large exhibit on how Americans use the porch serves as a reminder of how this public-private space can foster dialogue and neighborliness.

The willingness to yield to divine Love lifts us into healing, as a man experienced after being stung by wasps.