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Nye '58 to be ambassador to Japan, sources say

Former assistant secretary of defense, national intelligence council chairman and Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph Nye ’58, famous for his theory of “soft power,” will be President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Japan, major news sources have reported.

Nye and Wilson School professor Robert Keohane are founders of the theory of neo-liberalism in international relations. They are generally considered the top international-relations theorists in the world.

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Nye, a Wilson School graduate, attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard.

 

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