David A. Andelman (born 1944) is an American journalist, political commentator, and author.

Biography

David A. Andelman is the son of Selma () and Saul Andelman. He is a graduate of

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and of the

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. The ''

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'' reported that, while Andelman was the newspaper's

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correspondent in 1979, "heightened alertness" scuttled an attempt by the

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to put another ''Times'' journalist in a compromising position: "... a Russian man walked past a Soviet guard and into the Moscow bureau of The New York Times, saying he had a package for this correspondent" from Andelman. Andelman was the editor of '' World Policy Journal'' from 2008 to 2015. Following ''The New York Times'', he served for seven years as Paris correspondent for

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News. He has also worked in editorial roles at

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, and

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. From 2010 to 2012, he served as president of the

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. Andelman was awarded the 2019 Deadline Club Award for Commentary for his CNN and

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columns. In 2021,

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president

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named Andelman a chevalier of the

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for his work as a journalist and "for his lifelong commitment to promoting better understanding between French and American citizens."

Books

* David A. Andelman, ''The Peacemakers'', Harper & Row Publishers, 1973, * Alexandre De Marenches and David A. Andelman, ''The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism'', William Morrow & Co, 1992, * David A. Andelman, ''A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today'', John Wiley Publishers, 2007, with a new (2015) Centennial Edition and foreword by Sir Harold Evans, * Guillaume Serina, David A. Andelman (translator, afterword), ''An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb'', Pegasus Books, 2019, * David A. Andelman, ''A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars that Might Still Happen'', Pegasus Books, 2021

References

External links

Profile

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