On 9 Oct, 11:10, "PJ O'Donovan" wrote:
> Foreign Affairs Magazine article titled "The Default Power The False
> Prophecy of America's Decline"
> Josef Joffe
> September/October 2009
>
> Summary --
>
> "Since the United States first became a global superpower, it has been
> fashionable to speak of its decline. But in today's world, the United
> States' economic and military strength, along with the attractiveness
> of its ideals, will ensure its power for a long time to come."
>
> Josef Joffe
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> =C2=A0Dr. Josef Joffe
> Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is publisher-editor (German:
> Herausgeber) of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper.....
>
> ...Joffe was born into a Jewish family[1] in the Ghetto Litzmannstadt
> (=C5=81=C3=B3d=C5=BA)[2] or by other sources in Lithuania[3] and grew up =
in West
> Berlin, where he attended elementary school and gymnasium. He then
> came to the United States in 1961 as an exchange student, attending
> East Grand Rapids High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended
> Swarthmore College, graduating in 1965, obtained a postgraduate
> Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe in
> 1966 and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. He received a Ph.D in
> government from Harvard University in 1975.
>
> In 1976 Joffe started his career with Die Zeit as a 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
> S=C3=BCddeutsche Zeitung. In 1990 and 1991 he taught at Harvard Universit=
y,
> 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.
> In 2005, Joffe founded together with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Eliot Cohen
> and Frank Fukuyama The American Interest, a magazine where both
> American and international authors think and argue about the United
> States and its role in the world. 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, The National Interest and The American Interest...
>
> ....Joffe has received the Theodor Wolff Prize in journalism, the
> Ludwig B=C3=B6rne Prize in essays and literature, and the German Federal
> Order of Merit.
>
> Reference:
>
> "Yet this Jewish son of Berlin=E2=80=94educated at Swarthmore, Johns Hopk=
ins,
> and Harvard..." Review of Joffe's book =C3=9Cberpower by Bret Stephens in
> Commentary magazine
>
> Read the article in its entirety here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/PJs10094
The Hoover Institute. It figures (as you quaint colonials say).....
Dr. Barry Worthington |