It's a Funny World
With the Taliban going strong and the polar ice caps melting away, we wouldn’t blame you for feeling like there's nothing to laugh about - until now. You may not have thought policy wonks were funny, but we’re about to prove you wrong with a special evening of international stand-up comedy benefiting World Policy Journal
featuring professional comedians and friends of the World Policy Institute:
- Ophira Eisenberg
- WPI Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer
- Kevin Bleyer
- Robert George
- Emcee Christian Finnegan
Monday, September 13
7 -8:30 pm
at COMIX, 343 West 14th Street
The End of the Free Market
WPI Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer recounts the battle between state capitalism and the free market. Detailing the rise of state-owned firms in China, Russia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere, he demonstrates the growing challenge that state capitalism will pose for the entire global economy.
David A. Andelman
Editor, World Policy Journal
Expertise: International Affairs; Balkans; Iraq; Afghanistan; Russia; Central Europe; Oil; Economics; Southeast Asia; France; European Union
David A. Andelman became Editor of World Policy Journal in June 2008. Previously he served as Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world's largest business and financial website. Earlier, he was a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in various posts 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 Paris correspondent, traveling through and reporting from nearly 60 countries. There followed service as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and Business Editor of the New York Daily News.He is the author of three books, "The Peacemakers", published by Harper & Row, and "The Fourth World War", published by William Morrow, which he co-authored with the Count de Marenches, long-time head of French intelligence. His third book, "A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today” was published in November 2007 by John Wiley & Sons.Andelman has written for such publications as Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Harvard Club of New York, The Grolier Club and the Overseas Press Club.Education: MA, Columbia University School of JournalismBA, Harvard CollegeLanguages: French
Contact: andelman@worldpolicy.org
BOOKS
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
John Wiley & Sons, 2007
Online Chapter exclusive: Chapter 9 1/2
(co-authored with the Count de Marenches)
Harper Collins, 1992
Harper & Row, 1973
VIDEO & AUDIO
Interviewed by Ian Williams on his book shows on Catskills Radio, February 16, 2009.
Appeared on CBS “Eye on New York” with Maurice DuBois on February 15, 2009.
Spoke at Judith Regan’s Sirius Radio Show on February 3, 2009.
Participated in a France 24 debate, “Iraq’s Big Test,” on January 30,2009.
Appeared on “Le Téléphone Sonne,” France Inter Radio, August 5, 2008.
Appeared on The Leon Charney Report on July 20, 2008.
A Shattered Peace, on Forbes.com November 19, 2007.
SELECTED ARTICLES
“Buy American, Bankrupt Americans,” MarketWatch, February 2, 2009.
Wrote for The Huffington Times “Swiss Bear Arms … At a Medieval Wedding,” on June 30, 2008.
“Iraq According to Its Sheikhs,” on June 24, 2008 for The Huffington Post.
LECTURES & APPEARANCES
Moderated the "New Ventures for International Reporting," featuring Charles Sennott, Marc Rosenwasser, Keith Richburg. March 30, Overseas Press Club.
Appeared as the featured speaker at Professor Tony Judt's Luncheon Seminar at NYU's Remarque Institute, February 20, 2009.
Discussed his book, A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, and explored how the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I set the stage for many of our gravest crises today.
Appeared as the featured speaker at the Columbia Journalism School’s Delacorte Lectures on January 29, 2009. The complete lecture is available here.
Appeared as a keynote speaker at the Appleseed Gala on June 19, 2008.
Moderated the “Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America’s Coming of Age as a Superpower” event with Nick Mills at the World Policy Institute, on June 17, 2008.
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