David Andelman

David A. Andelman is an American journalist, political commentator and author. He is a contributor to CNN, twice winner of the Deadline Club Award, is a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, author of “A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Might Still Happen” and blogs at SubStack’s "Andelman Unleashed." He formerly was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for The New York Times in Europe and Asia and for CBS News in Paris.

He was awarded the Deadline Club Award for Best Opinion Writing for his CNN commentaries in 2018 and again in 2019 for his Reuters columns. He served for seven years as Editor & Publisher of World Policy Journal. Previously he served as an executive editor of Forbes. Earlier, he was domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in New York and Washington, as Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as senior European correspondent based in Paris. There followed service as Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and Business Editor of the New York Daily News. He has traveled through and reported from 86 countries.

His other books inlcude: "The Peacemakers," "The Fourth World War" (co-authored with the Count de Marenches, long-time head of French intelligence), "A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today," and "Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb."

Andelman has written for Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Readers Digest, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a member of the Century Association, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard Club of New York, National Press Club and the Grolier Club. He is President-emeritus of the Overseas Press Club of America and The Silurians Press Club, the oldest club in America for veteran journalists.

In 2021, at the French Consulate General in New York, Andelman was awarded the rank of chevalier (knight) of the Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest civilian decoration.