Dr. Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit and contributing editor of Time (Intl.). Previously he was columnist/editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000).
His essays and reviews have appeared in: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Weekly Standard, Prospect (London). Regular contributor to all the major U.S. and British quality dailies and frequent commentator on U.S., British and German TV/radio.
His second career has been in academia. The Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford in 1999/2000, he was Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard in 1990/91, with which he remains affiliated through the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. In 1998, he was a visiting lecturer at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. While a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment and Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington (1982-84), he was Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has taught at the University of Munich and the Salzburg Seminar and lectured widely in universities and research centers around the world.
His scholarly work has appeared in many books and in journals such as Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, International Security and Foreign Policy as well as professional journals in Germany, Britain and France. He is the author of The Limited Partnership: Europe, the United States and the Burdens of Alliance and co-author of Eroding Empire: Western Relations With Eastern Europe. Most recent book: The Future of International Politics: The Great Powers (1998).
Boards: American Academy in Berlin, International University Bremen, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Leo Baeck Institute, New York, European Advisory Board, Hypovereinsbank München. Editorial Boards: The National Interest, Washington and Prospect (London). Trustee: Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin, Deutsches Museum (Munich), Alfred-Herrhausen-Gesellschaft (Deutsche Bank), Frankfurt. Member: Trilateral Commission, American Council on Germany, Intl. Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard Club of Munich. Honors: Theodor Wolff Prize and Ludwig Börne Prize (Journalism/Essays/ Literature, Germany), Federal Order of Merit (Germany).
Raised in Berlin, he was educated at Swarthmore College (B.A.), the College of Europe, Johns Hopkins (M.A.), and Harvard (Ph.D.). Married to Dr. Christine Brinck Joffe, two daughters.
Address: Die Zeit, Speersort 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany. Voice: +4940-3280-584, Fax: 3280-596, email: joffe@zeit.de.