During the 2004 Presidential election, he was seen as the most likely pick for John Kerry's National Security Advisor.
During the 2004 Presidential election, he was seen as the most likely pick for John Kerry's National Security Advisor. One of his early works, a collaboration with Robert Keohane, championed the idea that international relations cannot be analyzed on a state to state basis, an idea called complex interdependence.  In later works, he argues that the US must maintain its hegemony not by military might or economic incentives as in the neorealist view, but by diplomacy and noncoercive means, or "soft power."  The author of Power and Interdependence and The Paradox of American Power? FTP, name this current Kennedy School of Government professor, the founder of the IR theory of neoliberalism.
During the 2004 Presidential election, he was seen as the most likely pick for John Kerry's National Security Advisor.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.