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John Stoessinger
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.
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