Don Oberdorfer

Don Oberdorfer has spent 38 years in journalism, including 25 years at the Washington Post. He was the Post’s White House correspondent, covering Richard Nixon’s first four years. Later, he served as Northeast Asia correspondent based in Tokyo before becoming the paper’s diplomatic correspondent, a position he filled with great distinction for 17 years. His latest book, Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (1997), draws upon fifty years of experience. His two other "contemporary history" books are Tet! (1971), a National Book Award finalist, and The Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era (1991). At present, he is writing a biography of Senator / Ambassador Mike Mansfield. Having won a number of prestigious journalism awards, he is currently journalist in residence at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Areas of expertise: East Asia; Japan; Korea; Russia; American foreign policy; media and diplomacy; U.S. Congress and foreign policy. Professor Oberdorfer is a graduate of Princeton University.