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FPIF Advisory Board, Member

John Feffer

Freelance Journalist

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John Feffer is the author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories, 2003). He is also the editor of the FPIF book Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Policy after September 11 (Seven Stories, 2003). He is also the author of Beyond Detente: Soviet Foreign Policy and U.S. Options (Hill & Wang, 1990) and Shock Waves: Eastern Europe After the Revolutions (South End, 1992). He is the editor of Living in Hope: People Challenging Globalization (Zed Books, 2002). He is also the editor, with Richard Caplan, of State of the Union, 1994: The Clinton Administration and the Nation in Profile (Westview, 1994) and Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (Oxford University Press, 1996). He is a former associate editor of World Policy Journal and has worked for American Friends Service Committee most recently as an international affairs representative in East Asia. He serves on the advisory committees of FPIF and the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea.

 

Articles written by this Advisory Committee Member for FPIF

Obama Takes a Bow?
Nov 20, 2009

Postcard from...Tirana
Nov 16, 2009

Obama: Visit Hiroshima
Nov 11, 2009

North Korea: Journalists vs. Diplomats
Nov 9, 2009

Afghanistan: NATO's Graveyard?
Sep 29, 2009

Postcard From...Dublin
Sep 8, 2009

Revolution in Japan
Aug 28, 2009

After the Sunshine Generation
Aug 21, 2009

Book Review: 'The Future of Global Relations'
Aug 19, 2009

Their Martyrs and Our Heroes
Aug 6, 2009

Asia's Axis of Evil?
Jul 30, 2009

North Korea's Papillon
Jul 20, 2009

Japan-ROK Relations on the Rocks
Jul 8, 2009

The Obama-Lee Summit: Dangerous Consensus?
Jun 19, 2009

Outsourcing North Korea Policy
Jun 11, 2009

Korean Tragedies
May 29, 2009

The G-2 Paradox
May 27, 2009

North Korea and Malign Neglect
May 22, 2009

Obama's First 100 Days: Foreign Policy
Apr 27, 2009

Piracy and Empire
Apr 24, 2009

Monsters vs. Aliens
Apr 22, 2009

North Korea's Sunshine Policy
Apr 20, 2009

Why Yugoslavia Still Matters
Apr 6, 2009

Strategic Dialogue: Yugoslavia
Apr 6, 2009

What's Up with North Korea?
Apr 5, 2009

A Need for Restraint Over North Korea's Satellite
Apr 5, 2009

On Trial 60 Years Later
Mar 26, 2009

Thinking Big in Crisis Time
Mar 12, 2009

Ploughshares into Swords
Feb 26, 2009

North Korea Sends Message: 'Don't Ignore Us!'
Feb 18, 2009

Pacific Freeze: Call to Action
Feb 9, 2009

The Risk of Military Keynesianism
Feb 9, 2009

Postcard From...Banja Luka
Jan 23, 2009

Japan: The Price of Normalcy
Jan 13, 2009

Review: 'Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic'
Dec 15, 2008

Foreign Policy for Obama Should Be Approached with a Broad Vision
Nov 26, 2008

Foreign Policy for Obama Should Be Approached with a Broad Vision
Nov 26, 2008

Engaging Pyongyang on Human Rights
Nov 20, 2008

The North Korean Conundrum
Nov 13, 2008

Review: A Floating City of Peasants
Oct 28, 2008

Interview with Daniel Heyman
Oct 17, 2008

Review: A Thousand Hills
Oct 15, 2008

Surrounding China's String of Pearls
Sep 29, 2008

Postcard from...Rome
Aug 25, 2008

The Goldilocks Apocalypse
Aug 21, 2008

The Abduction Narrative of Charles Robert Jenkins
Jul 3, 2008

Mother Earth's Triple Whammy
Jun 18, 2008

Postcard from...Sarajevo
May 5, 2008

Postcard from...Ljubljana
Apr 25, 2008

What Lee Can Learn from Bush
Apr 17, 2008

Memorializing Iraq
Mar 19, 2008

Postcard from...Brussels
Feb 28, 2008

Asia's Hidden Arms Race
Feb 13, 2008

Letter to South Korea's New President
Jan 9, 2008

Spreading the Word
Dec 19, 2007

The Paradox of East Asian Peace
Dec 13, 2007

Postcard from...Pusan
Nov 20, 2007

Global Tastes
Oct 16, 2007

Summit: Post-Playground Politics
Oct 5, 2007

South Korea as Transformer
Sep 28, 2007

The Art of Anti-War
Sep 21, 2007

Postcard From...Sofia
Sep 14, 2007

Postcard from...Istanbul
Sep 10, 2007

Three Hard Truths
Aug 17, 2007

60-Second Expert: U.S.-Korea Relations
Aug 17, 2007

Just Security: Conclusion
Jul 9, 2007

Just Counter-Terrorism
Jul 5, 2007

Just Nuclear Disarmament
Jun 28, 2007

Just Security: Introduction
Jun 19, 2007

Screening North Korea
Jun 12, 2007

China the Indispensable?
Mar 9, 2007

Step It Up
Feb 22, 2007

Promising Start With North Korea
Feb 16, 2007

North Korean Nuclear Agreement: Annotated
Feb 14, 2007

People Power vs. Military Power in East Asia
Feb 13, 2007

Bush and Kim: Brothers Under the Skin?
Feb 1, 2007

Picturing the President
Jan 26, 2007

Eat Local, But Think Global
Jan 26, 2007

Headbangers Against Genocide
Jan 4, 2007

Covering the Mekong
Dec 29, 2006

China and the Uses of Uncertainty
Dec 12, 2006

China: What's the Big Mystery?
Dec 4, 2006

Anti-Socialist Realism
Nov 17, 2006

North Korea Returns to the Negotiating Table
Nov 1, 2006

Pyongyang 1, Bush 0
Oct 10, 2006

North Korea and the Politics of Famine
Sep 18, 2006

Katrina: The Final Frontier
Sep 15, 2006

American Apples, Korean Oranges
Aug 17, 2006

The Sun Rises Again?
Aug 2, 2006

Pyongyang and Washington: Roaring Mouse vs. Squeaking Lion
Aug 1, 2006

The Axis of Intervention
Jul 27, 2006

Negotiating Space with North Korea
Jul 7, 2006

North Korean Fireworks?
Jun 30, 2006

To Link or Not to Link: The Human Rights Question in North Korea
Dec 19, 2005

Uses of Ambiguity in North Korea Agreement
Oct 1, 2005

Atoms for Peace? -- Maybe the N. Koreans Aren't so Crazy
Aug 17, 2005

"Korea's Slow-Motion Reunification"
Jun 9, 2005

"Dealing with the Powers in Pyongyang"
Feb 16, 2005

Round Two of Bush vs. North Korea
Feb 10, 2005

The Future of U.S.-South Korean Security Relations
Oct 29, 2004

The Future of U.S.-South Korean Security Relations
Oct 29, 2004

Bring Our Troops Home (from Korea)
Jun 21, 2004

It’s Our Party (and We’ll Cheer If We Want To)
Apr 30, 2004

Between Kim Jong Il and a Hard Place
Mar 1, 2004

The Tug of War
Oct 22, 2003

We've Lost Their Hearts and Minds
Sep 9, 2003

Hexagonal Headache
Sep 4, 2003

Hexagonal Headache
Sep 4, 2003

Six Countries in Search of a Solution
Aug 26, 2003

Six Countries in Search of a Solution
Aug 26, 2003

Fearful Symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang
Jul 1, 2003

Eyes on Different Prizes
May 12, 2003

Is North Korea Next?
Mar 24, 2003

South Korea Joins the Axis of Independence
Feb 24, 2003

The Time-Out Method Doesn't Work
Jan 23, 2003

Responding to North Korea's Surprises
Dec 1, 2002

Responding to North Korea's Surprises
Oct 1, 2002

Bush Policy Undermines Progress on Korean Peninsula
Mar 1, 2002

Globalization & Militarization
Feb 1, 2002

Korea
Jan 1, 2002

Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11
Jan 1, 2002

Militarization in the Age of Globalization
Nov 1, 2001

Korea: Liberation and Self-Determination
Aug 1, 2001

Progress on the Korean Peninsula?
Dec 1, 2000

A New Era for the Korean Peninsula
Jun 1, 2000

Containment Lite: U.S. Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors
Jun 1, 1999

U.S.-North Korea Relations
May 1, 1999

Restructuring East-Central European Economies
Dec 1, 1996

U.S. and the Former Yugoslavia: Improving on Dayton
Dec 1, 1996

U.S.-Russian Relations: Avoiding a Cold Peace
Nov 1, 1996

The Costs and Dangers of NATO Expansion
Nov 1, 1996

* Note from the FPIF Editor: Although the Advisory Committee shares FPIF's broad principles of internationalism, human rights, anti-militarism, and sustainable development, FPIF doesn't expect all members necessarily to agree with or endorse all the policy prescriptions that we publish.


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