Nye writes in his article that “not too many top-ranked scholars of international relations are going into government and even fewer return to contribute to academic theory.  (…) The fault for this growing gap lies not with the government but with the academics.”

If you are interested in that topic, here is a nice video featuring Daniel Drezner in a online debate with Joseph Nye on Blogginheads.tv.  The debate and the issue are rather typical for the US and  its  academic tradition in political science- so it would be intersting to see whether this debate has any significance for European political scientists…