Born in 1950 in
Paris into a
German-Jewish family, which survived World War II and
the Holocaust, Adler was a history graduate of the
École normale supérieure (1969–1974). He directed the chair for International Relations of France's
Ministry of Defense Interarmy College of Defense (1992–1998) where he remained a professor of higher military learning. After working with the French daily
Libération (1982–1992), Adler went on to become editorial director of
Courrier International (1992–2002), a weekly selection of significant articles from the international press. In the 1980s, Adler played a prominent role in
L’Affaire Manouchian as the debate about who betrayed
Missak Manouchian was known. Adler was a defender of
Boris Holban against the allegation that he was the police informer who betrayed Manouchian, writing a series of articles in 1985-86 that argued that Holban was not in position to betray Manouchian even if he had wanted to. Adler served as an editorialist for the French daily paper
Le Monde and worked with several French weeklies, including
Le Point and ''
L'Express''. He sat on the editorial board of the conservative French daily
Le Figaro. Alexandre Adler died in Paris on 18 July 2023, aged 72. ==Bibliography==