Karel van Wolferen
Karel van Wolferen (* 1941 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch journalist, publicist and university professor.
Life
After graduating from school, van Wolferen left the Netherlands in 1960, toured the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia and began his journalistic work. Since 1962 he worked as an English teacher in Japan , including at Waseda University . In 1972 he became the East Asia correspondent for the NRC Handelsblad and wrote about political and social developments in Japan, India , Thailand , Vietnam , the Philippines and South Korea . In 1987 van Wolferen received the Prijs voor de Dagbladjournalistiek , a Dutch journalism award . His extensive work on politics and society in Japan was published in 1989 under the title The Enigma of Japanese Power (German: On the Myth of the Invincible: Notes on the World Power of Japan ).
From 1997 to 2006 van Wolferen was univeristeitshoogleraar at the Institute of Comparative Political and Economic Institutions at the University of Amsterdam .
Positions
Van Wolferen has rejected the global political role of the USA since the 1990s and criticized - especially in the Ukraine crisis - the lack of objectivity and independence of European countries and the alignment of the media in their adaptation to the political goals of the USA.
Web links
- Information about Karel van Wolferen on the website of the University of Amsterdam ( Memento from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Van Wolferen's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Barth: Extensive enemy propaganda. Retrieved on February 24, 2017 (German).
- ↑ 08/15/14 Karel Van Wolferen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 23, 2014 ; Retrieved February 24, 2017 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Ukraine, Corrupted Journalism, and the Atlanticist Faith . In: The Unz Review . ( unz.com [accessed February 24, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolferen, Karel van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch journalist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam , Netherlands |