John Feffer

John Feffer (born 1963) is an author and currently director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.^[1] He is a fellow at the Open Society Foundations.^[2] His books include Crusade 2.0 (City Lights, 2012), a description of contemporary attacks on Islam; North Korea/South Korea: US Policy and the Korean Peninsula, a description of current US policy towards Korea and its limitations; Power Trip, a narrative of American unilateralism during the George W. Bush administration; and Living in Hope, a description of creative responses by local communities to the challenges of globalization. His latest book, Pandemic Pivot (Seven Stories Press, 2020), reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for transformative change coming out of the pandemic.^[3]

John Feffer
Education	Haverford College
Website	http://www.johnfeffer.com/

Feffer is a contributor to The Huffington Post. He has written the satirical plays The Pundit and The Politician, performed in 2012 and 2013 respectively at Washington's Capital Fringe Festival.^[2]

He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.^[4]

Awards and fellowships

• Herbert W. Scoville Fellowship (1988)^[5]

Written works

• Foamers: A Novel of Suspense (Scribner, 1997)
• All Over the Map (Smashwords, 2012)
• Crusade 2.0 (City Lights Publishers, 2012)
• Splinterlands (Haymarket Books, 2016)
• Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe's Broken Dreams (Zed Books, 2017)
• The Pandemic Pivot: A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, The Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South (Seven Stories Press, 2020)