John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.

He is the author, most recently, of Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams (Zed Books). He is also the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands (Dispatch Books) and its soon-to-be-released sequel Frostlands. He is the author of several other books, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USAToday, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications.

He has been an Open Society fellow, a PanTech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University, a Herbert W. Scoville fellow, a writing fellow at Provisions Library in Washington, DC, and a writer in residence at Blue Mountain Center and the Wurlitzer Foundation.

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.

John has been widely interviewed in print, on radio, and TV.

Learn more about him on his website.

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The Sick Man of North America

My modestly priced new ebook covers the worsening health of U.S. foreign policy and the efforts to revive the patient.

The Next Marx

The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order.

All Over the Map: The Best of World Beat

Collection of more than 125 Foreign Policy In Focus columns covering war, peace, terrorism, global economics, culture, democracy, and the environment.

State of the Union’s Foreign Policy: Unilateral Triumphalism

In Address to Congress, President Obama returned to his perceived strong suit to discuss how the United States must operate from a position of strength.

Pollyanna of Peace?

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Approaching North Korea in the Kim Jong Un Era

Every time a new administration takes office in Washington, it behaves like an amnesiac toward North Korea.

Cult of Personality

When we focus our analysis on personalities like Assad in Syria or Kim Jong Un in North Korea, we succumb to our own personality cult.

The Apocalyptics

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All-American Bigotry

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Nigeria with Nukes

Millions of people have thronged the streets of cities all over the world this last year to protest the influence of money on power–the corruption in Mubarak’s Egypt and Ben Ali’s Tunisia, the malign effects of Wall Street and other financial institutions, the power elite in Russia.

The Other Kim

South Korean parliamentarian Kim Geun-Tae was a soft-spoken man dedicated to reunification of the Koreas.

Two Cold War Milestones

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North Korea on the Verge of a New Era?

The Obama administration has achance to use the death of Kim Jong Il to open a new chapter in its relationship with North Korea.

Architects of Change

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Two Leaders, Two Deaths

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Czech leader Vaclav Havel occupied the opposite ends of the political continuum.

The New Chicken Littles

After Islamist parties won three elections in a row, Chicken Littles threw up their hands in horror.

Appeasement Complex

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Occupy Foreign Affairs

Inequality has become so extreme that even the foreign policy elite is worried.

Droning On

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan is setting precedents that will one day come back to haunt America.

America Is Not Broke

How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.

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