Josef Joffe
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Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is editor and publisher of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.
Joffe was born in Lithuania and grew up in West Berlin, where he attended to elementary school and gymnasium. He then came to the United States at the end of the 1950s as an exchange student, attending high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1965, and obtained a Ph.D in government from Harvard University in 1975.
1976 Joffe started his career with Die Zeit as political writer and grew into managing the Zeit Dossier department, an important and often lengthy part of this newspaper which elaborates a single topic on several pages.
From 1982 to 1984 he was a professorial lecturer at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and from 1985 to 2000 he was columnist and editorial page editor for Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 1990 and 1991 he taught at Harvard University, in 1998 he was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and in 2002 he was a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College. He has also taught at the University of Munich and the Salzburg Seminar.
Joffe's essays and reviews have appeared in a wide number of publications including Commentary, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Prospect, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Weekly Standard. His scholarly work has appeared in many books and in journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Security, and The National Interest.
He has received the Theodor Wolff Prize in journalism, the Ludwig Börne Prize in essays and literature, and the German Federal Order of Merit. He has also been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Swarthmore College (2002) and Lewis and Clark College (2005).
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[edit] Topics and standpoints
International politics in relation with Germany's position in the world has been a preferred subject for Joffe. He initially supported the 2003 Invasion of Iraq subsequently grew more and more critical of the American position.
Joffe is known for his global warming scepticism. He has described Al Gore as the "priest" of a (climate related) "secular religion" [1].
[edit] Memberships
Josef Joffe is member of a variety of head gremia and boards so e.g. as member of the Abraham-Geiger rabbinic seminary in Potsdam, Deutsches Museum, Aspen Institute Berlin, Jacobs University Bremen, Ben Gurion University, American Academy Berlin, Leo Baeck Institut New York and Humanity in Action (Berlin).
[edit] References
[edit] Selected Books
- The Limited Partnership: Europe, the United States, and the Burden of Alliance, Ballinger (June 1987). ISBN 0-88730-216-5
- The Future of the Great Powers: Predictions, Orion (February 1999). ISBN 0-297-84000-2
- Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America, W. W. Norton (June 2006). ISBN 0-393-06135-3
[edit] External links
- Biography
- Interview with Josef Joffe
- Interview about the Superpowers and Europe for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
- Commencement Address at Swarthmore College
- Prospect magazine Archive of articles written by Joffe.
- The New York Review of Books
- A World Without Israel Essay published in Foreign Policy magazine.
