What’s Behind Trump’s Attacks on Europe?
July 18, 2018 | Maybe Putin has some dirt on Trump. But the real problem is Trump thinks like Putin.
About 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
Articles by John Feffer
My Novel (Accidentally) Predicted Trump
March 1, 2017 | By the time my dystopian future novel went to print, much of that future had become the present.
Fighting for Europe’s Soul
January 21, 2015 | Extremists of all stripes would love to see the Crusades revived.
The Night the Cold War Ended
November 19, 2014 | Not everyone in Europe recalls the collapse of the Berlin Wall fondly — or at all.
Irked by Israel’s Foot-Dragging
October 22, 2014 | Longtime allies are losing patience after waiting for years to see Tel Aviv recognize Palestine.
We Can’t Go On Eating Like This
October 1, 2014 | With more of us crowding a warming planet, we need agricultural change.
Paying for the Climate Change Pivot
April 23, 2014 | The Pentagon needs to put its money where its mouth is.
Name that Foreign Policy Legacy
November 21, 2012 | Under Obama's leadership, Washington is finally coming to terms with the world's multipolarity.
The Islamophobe Fringe
September 24, 2012 | The deeper reason for the heated response from the Muslim world is not so much Western rhetoric but Western policy.
Running Against Islam
February 27, 2012 | Politicians indulge in anti-Islamic sentiment with near impunity.
Two Cold War Milestones
December 26, 2011 | North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Czech leader Vaclav Havel, although political opposites, shared some things in common.
Al-Qaeda Lost the Battle Long Ago
September 5, 2011 | The terrorist network's resort to dramatic spectacle was at once a brilliant tactic and a desperate effort to revive its own fortunes.
A Politician Who Distinguishes Fact from Fiction
June 20, 2011 | Jim Webb would make a great Secretary of Defense.
Playing into Osama Bin Laden’s Hands
May 3, 2011 | His greatest magic trick was to persuade the United States and its allies to expend enormous sums of money to fight a small, isolated, and anachronistic force that operated on the very margins of the Muslim world.
No-Doctrine Obama
May 2, 2011 | Ultimately, the administration is unlikely to use Libya as a precedent for intervention anywhere else.