Josef Joffe

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Josef Joffe
PhD
)
Occupation
  • Publisher-editor
Known forBeing publisher-editor of Die Zeit

Josef Joffe (born 15 March 1944) is a former publisher-editor of

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in 2007 (a faculty position), he is also the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution and a courtesy professor of political science at Stanford University. Since 1999, he has been an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University
.

Life

Joffe was born into the

School of Advanced International Studies
. 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

Salzburg Seminar
.

In 2005, Joffe founded, together with

International Security, The National Interest
and The American Interest.

Scandals/Corruption

Joffe was suspended of his editorship of ZEIT in May 2022. According to research by Der Spiegel, in January 2017 Joffe warned banker Max Warburg, who was a friend of his, about upcoming investigations by his own newspaper. Joffe rejected criticism from his friend Max Warburg of investigative cum-ex reporting in Die Zeit and emphasized that he had tried to “limit the damage” for Warburg. “I warned you about what was in the pipeline,” said Joffe literally. It was thanks to his “intervention” that the article “was pushed and the bank was given the opportunity to object.” Joffe also recalled that he had "begged" the banker to hire "an excellent PR agency" because of the allegations, since it involved things "that were legal at the time." Joffe has been tied to numerous pro-NATO think tanks and was involved in the Bittner affair, when German journalist Jochen Bittner was discovered to have both written the speech of the German president and subsequently reported positively on his own work. When the German television show "Die Anstalt" reported on Joffe's corruption, Joffe sued the network ZDF, but a German court struck down his case.

Topics and standpoints

International politics in relation with Germany's position in the world has been a preferred subject for Joffe. Joffe's 1984 article in Foreign Policy, entitled "Europe's American Pacifier,"

term of art
"the American pacifier". The piece presents the argument that the preponderant power of the United States (in this case, projected into Europe) acts as a pacifying force in the region, preventing the region's multipolarity from leading to conflict.

Joffe is known for his

global warming scepticism. He has described Al Gore as the "priest" of a (climate related) "secular religion".[3]

Honors

Joffe has received the

Lewis and Clark College (2005). He received the Scopus Award in 2009.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Yet this Jewish son of Berlin – educated at Swarthmore, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard..." Review of Joffe's book Überpower by Bret Stephens in Commentary magazine Archived 3 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. JSTOR 1148355
    .
  3. ^ Joffe, Josef. "Ich bin Dein Gore". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Wolff-Preis für Joffe". Zeit Online (in German). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Ludwig Börne Preis". Ludwig Börne Stiftung (in German). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Preisverleihung im Kaisersaal der Residenz". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. 28 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2020.

Selected books

External links

Library resources
By Josef Joffe
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