In a recent survey of internatinal relations scholars, Professor Nye 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. If you’ve ever heard the term “soft power” then you’re familiar with Professor Nye’s work. A University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Professor Nye joins us today to discuss how foreign policy is formed, how it should be formed and why voters must involve themselves in understanding foreign policy if they are going to get better foreign policy from their officials.

You can follow him on twitter @Joe_Nye. He is the author of the following books:

Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era (Princeton University Press, 2013)
The Future of Power (PublicAffairs, 2011)
The Powers to Lead (Oxford University Press, 2008)
The Power Game: A Washington Novel (Public Affairs, 2004)
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (PublicAffairs, 2004)
Power in the Global Information Age: From Realism to Globalization (Routledge, 2004)
The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go it Alone (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History, 7th ed. (Longman, 2008)
Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, (Basic Books, 1990)
Nuclear Ethics (The Free Press, 1986)
Hawks, Doves and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, co-authored with Graham Allison and Albert Carnesale (Norton, 1985)
Living with Nuclear Weapons. A Report by the Harvard Nuclear Study Group (Harvard University Press, 1983)
Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition, co-authored with Robert O. Keohane (Little Brown and Company, 1977; Longman, 2000)
Peace in Parts: Integration and Conflict in Regional Organization (Little Brown and Company, 1971)
Pan Africanism and East African Integration (Harvard University Press, 1965)