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
Blog
Balkan Blues
October 8 - "He insisted that I couldn't understand Bulgaria until I'd listened to the Balkan blues."
Commentary
From Pacific Pivot to Green Revolution
October 4 - Here's a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia. Published in Nolet News Reviews.
Blog
Belgrade: Gritty City
October 3 - Belgrade is gritty -- in both senses of the word.