Joseph Nye Jr. — one of the world’s leading thinkers on the nature of power and international relations — died this week at the age of 88.

I was first exposed to Joe Nye as a junior faculty member at the Kennedy School. I had heard he had served in government, ...

He coined the term, arguing that a country’s global influence can’t be built on military might alone. Diplomats around the ...

Nye’s ideas transformed how we understand power, his leadership helped guide his country through difficult moments, and his ...