Journalist and historian Alexandre Adler, a specialist in international relations, the former USSR and the Middle East, died on Tuesday at the age of 72, his wife, philosopher Blandine Kriegel, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). . He died at the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris. The journalist was currently working on an “almost completed treatise on geopolitics”, according to Blandine Kriegel, joined by AFP.
Winner of the 2003 political book prize for his bestseller released the year before, I saw the old world end, on the consequences of the attacks of September 11, Alexandre Adler had also won in 1999 the prize for the Mumm Foundation for its Notepads in Courrier International.
He worked for ten years at Liberation (1982-1992), then at Courrier international, of which he was editor-in-chief then editorial director (1992-2002), and also spent five years at Le Monde as adviser to Jean-Marie Colombani, then editor of the newspaper. This normalien, agrégé in history, known for his great erudition, also collaborated with Figaro, Le Point, France Culture… “He had announced the fall of the USSR early on”, recalled his spouse in a press release sent to the AFP. The causes of his death were not specified.