Joseph Nye, Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government since 1995, has had extensive experience in international affairs policy as an undersecretary of state, chairman of the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation, chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and the US representative to the United Nations Advisory Committee on Disarmament Affairs. In addition, Mr. Nye is a prominent academic in the field, having served as director of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Institute for East-West Security Studies, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy and International Security, Mr. Nye is a frequent commentator and writer on international security issues and US foreign policy. Most recently, Mr. Nye authored The Paradox of American Power (2002), which addresses the tensions between US military supremacy and multilateralism in foreign policy by introducing the concept of “soft power.”