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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In this new book, Ray Takeyh argues for engaging Iran rather than isolating it.

The Goldstone Report: Killing the Messenger

The Obama administration and congressional Democrats, in rejecting the recommendations of the Goldstone report, have defended Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Losing the Moral High Ground

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From Killing Fields to Fields of Dreams

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The Hand of Obama

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Send Bosworth to North Korea

President Obama can break the impasse with North Korea by sending special envoy Stephen Bosworth for face-to-face talks in Pyongyang.

The Return of the Non-Aligned Movement?

It’s time to exit the unipolar age, with the help of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Decision Point: Afghanistan

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Why Afghanistan

Afghanistan requires a long-term U.S. commitment, not as a military occupier but rather as a development partner.

"We Deeply Regret"

The U.S.-German bombing at Kunduz has shattered the myth that the Afghan campaign was about digging wells, building schools, and bringing peace.

Casino Capitalism as Usual

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The Hayden Letter

Why is the former director so eager to suppress the CIA investigation?

Carbon Disarmament

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Afghanistan: NATO’s Graveyard?

Is the transatlantic alliance doomed?

Going Beyond Kyoto

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G20: Form, not Substance

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The Goldstone Report

The Obama administration must take this report on atrocities committed during the Gaza War very seriously.

Good War vs. Great Society

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Oil Nationalism in Latin America

Latin American states are taking greater control of their oil assets, with shifts in policy that range from relatively benign to more combative.

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