Angelo Codevilla

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Angelo Codevilla
Churchill Fellowship (1975)[1]
SchoolInternational relations theory
Western philosophy
WebsiteUniversity website
Hoover website

Angelo Maria Codevilla (May 25, 1943 – September 20, 2021) was an Italian-American professor of

Foreign Affairs, National Review, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator and The Washington Post.[3] He has also been published in Political Science Reviewer, Intercollegiate Review, and Politica.[1]

Education and career

He graduated from

Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1980 Codevilla was appointed to the teams preparing the presidential transition for the State Department and the CIA.[4][3][5] Throughout his time in government, Codevilla published on intelligence and national security and taught. In 1985 Codevilla returned to full-time academic life as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was professor of international relations at what is now the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
from 1995 to 2008.

Personal life

Angelo Maria Codevilla was born on May 25, 1943, in

Joint Service Commendation Medal.[1][4] Codevilla died in a car accident in Tracy, California, on September 20, 2021, at the age of 78.[6]

Pollard case

While acknowledging that

Israeli
spy.

On November 5, 2013, Codevilla wrote to then-President

, is based on a thorough knowledge of the case. Codevilla concluded, "having been intimately acquainted with the materials that Pollard passed and with the 'sources and methods' by which they were gathered, I would be willing to give expert testimony that Pollard is guilty of neither more nor less than what the indictment alleges."

In a contemporaneous interview with the

Weekly Standard, Codevilla said that, "The story of the Pollard case is a blot on American justice", and that the life sentence "makes you ashamed to be an American."[7][8][9][10][11]

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Maria Angelo Codevilla". Contemporary Authors Online. Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale. April 23, 2009. GALE|H1000019089. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  2. . Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  3. ^
    Hoover Press
    . Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  4. ^ a b "James Madison Program". Princeton University. Archived from the original on May 27, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  5. ^ Rosen, Stephen (July 1, 1988). "While Others Build: The Common-Sense Approach to the Strategic Defense Initiative, by Angelo Codevilla (Anti-Missile Defense)". Commentary. Book review of While Others Build: The Common-sense Approach to the Strategic Defense Initiative.
  6. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved October 4, 2021.
  7. ^ url=http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2013/110513.jpg,
  8. ^ url=http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/pollard-defenders-vindicated/
  9. ^ url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/119711/pollard-defenders-vindicated
  10. ^ Phelan, Wesley (January 11, 1999). "The True Motives Behind the Sentencing of Jonathan Pollard - An Interview with Angelo Codevilla - Special Feature". The Washington Weekly. Retrieved July 5, 2014. republished July 17, 2000, at Jonathan Pollard website
  11. ^ Codevilla, Angelo; Cotler, Irwin; Dershowitz, Alan; Lasson, Kenneth (January 2, 1999). "The True Motives Behind the Sentencing of Jonathan Pollard - An Interview with Angelo Codevilla - Special Feature". The Washington Post. p. A19. Retrieved July 5, 2014. republished at Jonathan Pollard website

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