Dr. Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Previously, he was a columnist and editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000). Outside Germany, his essays and reviews have appeared in New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Weekly Standard, Prospect, and Commentaire. He obtained his Ph.D. in Government in 1975 from Harvard and has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the University of Munich. In 2007, he was appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford’s Institute for International Studies.
A Courtesy Professor of political science at Stanford since 2004, Dr. Joffe is also Abramowitz Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is Überpower: America’s Imperial Temptation. He serves on the boards of the American Academy in Berlin, Ben-Gurion University, Aspen Institute Berlin, Leo Baeck Institute, German Children and Youth Foundation, the Deutsches Museum, and Abraham Geiger College.
Dr. Joffe is a former board member of the International University Bremen and the Goldman Sachs Foundation. He co-founded The American Interest and also serves on the editorial boards of International Security and Prospect. A recipient of Honorary Degrees from Swarthmore College (2002) and from Lewis and Clark College (2005), he has won the Theodor Wolff Prize in Journalism and the Ludwig Börne Prize in Literature, and was awarded the Federal Order of Merit by the German government.