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: JohnFeffer.com.
Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe United States has long styled itself a Pacific power. It established the model of counterinsurgency in the Philippines in 1899 and defeated the Japanese in World War II. It faced down the Chinese and the North Koreans to keep the Korean peninsula divided in 1950, and it ...
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June 5th, 2012
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May 25th, 2012
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May 16th, 2012
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May 9th, 2012
The Slow Death of Neoliberalism
It's happening in Buenos Aires. It’s happening in Paris and in Athens. It’s even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally ...
May 1st, 2012
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April 10th, 2012
Every year, in the last two weeks of their final semester, a group of seniors in the 20th-century world history class at my high school ...
January 11th, 2012
Republican Heavy Metal Band: The Apocalyptics
They’re like a heavy metal band. Dress them up in black, put some Goth makeup on them, give them a name like The Apocalyptics, and ...
January 26th, 2012
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February 28th, 2012
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The United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to Cairo to “seek a new beginning ...
April 10th, 2012
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Stop the Russians from spreading south. This was a primary objective of the Great Game of the 19th century that centered on Central Asia and ...
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