Dr. John 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. 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. Dr. Stoessinger was
Chief Book Review Editor of Foreign Affairs for five years and is presently
Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Trinity University, San
Antonio, Texas. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards,
including Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws from Grinnell College and the
American College in Switzerland.
During the past year, Dr. Stoessinger has addressed audiences in the fifty
states of the Union and in more than twenty foreign countries.
