John Feffer
Co-Director
Foreign Policy In Focus
johnf@ips-dc.org
1112 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC, 20036
John Feffer
John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.
He is the author of several books and numerous articles. He has been a Writing Fellow at Provisions Library in Washington, DC and a PanTech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University. He is a former associate editor of World Policy Journal. He has worked as an international affairs representative in Eastern Europe and East Asia for the American Friends Service Committee. He has studied in England and Russia, lived in Poland and Japan, and traveled widely throughout Europe and Asia. He has taught a graduate level course on international conflict at Sungkonghoe University in Seoul in July 2001 and delivered lectures at a variety of academic institutions including New York University, Hofstra, Union College, Cornell University, and Sofia University (Tokyo).
John has been widely interviewed in print and on radio. He serves on the advisory committees of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea. He is a recipient of the Herbert W. Scoville fellowship and has been a writer in residence at Blue Mountain Center and the Wurlitzer Foundation.
His website is: www.johnfeffer.com
Recent Work
World Beat
The Not-So-Great Game
February 7 - What would happen if we stopped playing games with Iran?
Blog
The Sick Man of North America
January 31 - My modestly priced new ebook covers the worsening health of U.S. foreign policy and the efforts to revive the patient.
World Beat
The Next Marx
January 31 - The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order. Published in Common Dreams.