John G. Stoessinger

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John G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. (Harvard), a prize winning author of ten leading books on world politics, has been the recipient of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for History, and has served as Acting Director for the Political Affairs Division at the United Nations. On the eve of World War II, Dr. Stoessinger fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to Czechoslovakia. His family was saved by a Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, who issued three visa to transit Russia. He escaped to Shanghai via Siberia and Kobe. Dr. Stoessinger is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, lecturing extensively throughout the world, and serves as Distinguished Professor of Global Diplomacy at the University of San Diego and a visiting lecturer at the University of California, San Diego.

In 1976, Stoessinger pleaded guilty to concealing fraud totaling at least $260,000 committed by Anne Lament using letters of recommendation from him addressed to overseas banks and governments.^[1]

1 Partial Bibliography
2 Sources
3 External links
4 Footnotes

[edit] Partial Bibliography

The Refugee and the World Community (1956)
The Might of Nations: World Politics in Our Time (1962)
Financing the United Nations System (1964)
Power and Order (1964)
The United Nations and the Superpowers (1965)
Nations in Darkness: China, Russia, and America (1971) (Note: The sixth and most recent edition was retitled Nations at Dawn: China, Russia, and America)
Why Nations Go to War (1974)
Henry Kissinger: The Anguish of Power (1976)
Night Journey (1978)
Crusaders and Pragmatists: Movers of Modern American Foreign Policy (1979)

[edit] Sources

Stoessinger, John [1974] (2005). Why Nations Go to War, Ninth Edition.
Stoessinger, John [1971] (1994). Nations at Dawn: China, Russia, and America, Sixth Edition.