John Stoessinger

Biography

Dr. John G. Stoessinger is an internationally recognized political analyst and a prize-winning author of ten leading books on world politics. He holds a Ph.D from Harvard and has taught at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia and Princeton. From 1967 to 1974, he served as acting director of the political affairs division at the United Nations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lectures extensively throughout the world. On the eve of World War II, John G. Stoessinger fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to Czechoslovakia. Three years later, he fled again via Siberia to China where he lived for seven years. In Shanghai, he served with the International Refugee Organization. Dr. Stoessinger is the author of The Might of Nations: World Politics in Our Time, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize.

Publications

Dr. Stoessinger is the author of The Might of Nations: World Politics in our Time, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize. The book has gone through ten editions. He has also authored The Refugee and The World Community; Financing the United Nations System; Power and Order; The United Nations and the Superpowers; Nations at Dawn; China, Russia and America; Why Nations go to War; Henry Kissinger: The Anguish of Power; and Crusaders and Pragmatists: Movers of Modern American Foreign Policy.

Titles

Turning America Around at Home and Abroad: The Twin Challenges of Terrorism and Jobs Outsourcing Of Courage and Survival: Reflections on America by a Holocaust Survivor The United States and the Global Economy The United States and the Coming Struggle for Global Dominance Report from the Russian and Chinese Fronts Investing in Latin America Investing in South Africa The Middle East: Breakdown or Breakthrough?