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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 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joseph Nye is the 16th most popular political scientist (down from 14th in 2019), the 1,612th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,570th in 2019) and the 6th 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 16 out of 46. Before him are Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Gene Sharp, Maurice Duverger, David Easton, and Robert A. Dahl. After him are John Mearsheimer, Muhammad Asad, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Ilan Pappé, Arend Lijphart, and Norman Finkelstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Joseph Nye ranks 76. Before him are Cüneyt Arkın, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Dragoslav Šekularac, Tamara Bunke, Hunter S. Thompson, and Yılmaz Güney. After him are Thomas Nagel, Valentin Pavlov, Rubin Carter, Rafael Moneo, Jerry Reed, and Seymour Hersh. Among people deceased in 2025, Joseph Nye ranks 20. Before him are Richard Chamberlain, Denis Law, Leo Beenhakker, Sofia Gubaidulina, Fouad Mebazaa, and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. After him are Ágnes Keleti, Roberta Flack, Joan Plowright, Jochen Mass, Khamtai Siphandon, and Dražen Dalipagić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Nye ranks 1,612 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Haley (1925), James McKeen Cattell (1860), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925). After him are Frank Drake (1930), Sidney Bechet (1897), Cliff Robertson (1923), Edward James Olmos (1947), Karen Allen (1951), and Frederick Herzberg (1923).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Joseph Nye ranks 6. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington (1927), Francis Fukuyama (1952), Harold Lasswell (1902), Gene Sharp (1928), and Robert A. Dahl (1915). After him are John Mearsheimer (1947), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Robert D. Putnam (1941), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert Keohane (1941), and Graham Allison (1940).

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