David Andelman- A Red Line In The Sand

David A. Andelman, longtime columnist for CNN and veteran correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News, astutely combines history and global politics in his new book, A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Might Still Happen in an effort to examine the present and draw lessons for the future through the prism of the past. A Red Line in the Sand is the story of barriers – physical, diplomatic, military, and existential – that have proliferated in years across every continent and, in recent years, have reached a toxic apex in numbers and virulence. Andelman asserts that there have never been more red lines at any one point in history than today. While some of this responsibility must fall to America’s president, Donald Trump, his too often quixotic approach to international troubles should not be the only explanation for many of these pernicious divisions. David A. Andelman is a veteran New York Times and CBS News correspondent and executive director of The Red Lines Project. He is an award-winning columnist for CNN and contributor to NBC News/Think. He has served as the editor and publisher of World Policy Journal, as an Executive Editor of Forbes, and news editor at Bloomberg. He is the author of The Peacemakers, The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism with the Count de Marenches, and A Shattered Peace: Versailles, 1919 and the Price We Pay Today. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Canadensis, Pennsylvania and Paris, France.