David A. Andelman (born October 6, 1944) is an American journalist, political commentator and author.

Born October 6, 1944 to a Jewish family^[1] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Selma (née Nathanson) and Saul Andelman.^[2] His father was an attorney.^[3] He is a graduate of Harvard College and of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.^[4] Andelman was the editor of World Policy Journal from 2008 until 2015. Previously, he served as an executive editor at Forbes.com, as business editor of New York Daily News, as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, and as a reporter, correspondent and bureau chief for The New York Times in covering Southeast Asia from his base in Bangkok, Eastern Europe from his base in Belgrade, and New York. Following The New York Times, he served for seven years as Paris correspondent for CBS News.^[4]

Andelman is the author of A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, a look at how some of the world's current geopolitical problems can be traced to the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War I. He was also co-author of The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism, a book of memoirs and opinion with Alexandre de Marenches, a former head of French intelligence.

Andelman is a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today and is a 'Voices' columnist for CNN, writing columns dealing with international affairs.^[5][6] He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2010 to 2012 he served as president of the Overseas Press Club.^[7]

In 2018, he was named a visiting scholar at the Center on National Security of Fordham Law School and director of The Red Lines Project.^[8]

In 1974, he married Susan Sheinman.^[3][9] In 2000, he married Pamela Susan Title of New Orleans, Louisiana.^[10]

• David A. Andelman, A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars that Might Still Happen, Pegasus Books, 2021 ISBN 978-1643136486
• Guillaume Serina, David A. Andelman (translator, afterword), An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb, Pegasus Books, 2019, ISBN 978-1643130842
• 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, ISBN 978-0-471-78898-0
• Alexandre De Marenches and David A. Andelman, The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism, William Morrow & Co, 1992, ISBN 0-688-09218-7
• David A. Andelman, The Peacemakers, Harper & Row Publishers, 1973, ISBN 0-06-553106-X