Working through each presidency from FDR to Trump, Nye scored their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions: their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. He evaluated their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (
@Joe_Nye) is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a Deputy Under Secretary of State. His most recent books include
The Powers to Lead,
The Future of Power,
Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era, and
The Power Game: a Washington Novel. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011,
Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.
Peter Trubowitz (
@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House
This event was held on 4 June 2020 and was part of the US Centre's Phelan Family Lecture Series.