Background
Cohen was born in Montreal, Quebec.
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Andrew Cohen
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He studied political science at McGill University and then took graduate degrees in journalism and international relations at Carleton University.
Career
Cohen has written widely on international affairs and on Canadian politics. His books include: A Deal Undone: The Making and Breaking of the Meech Lake and Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
He also spent a year at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.
He has worked as a journalist for The Ottawa Citizen, United Press International, Time, The Financial Post, Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail. His other publications include Extraordinary Canadians:, and
Extraordinary Canadians:.
Achievements
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Cohen has won two Canadian National Newspaper Awards, three National Magazine Awards and the Queen"s Golden Jubilee Meda He has written and co-edited six books, among them The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are, and While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World, which was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Governor General"s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Membership
At the Globe and Mail, he was a member of the Editorial Board and a columnist and foreign correspondent in Washington.
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