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Alexandre del Valle is an Italo-French geopolitician and researcher at Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics. His research focuses on radical Islam, terrorism and Turkey's accession to European Union. He is the main analyst of the Red-green-brown alliance paradigm.[citation needed]
[edit] Biography
[edit] Early lifeDel Valle was born in Marseille, France. He is a son of Pieds-Noirs. His father was a Sicilian from Tunisia and his mother a Spaniard from Algeria.[1] In 2001, he married a Jewish Argentine woman, Monica Althman. [edit] EducationHe attended the Sciences Po school and obtained the Diplôme de l'institut d'études politiques d'Aix en Provence with an Arabic Area and International Relations specialization. He also received a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) on Military History-security-defense at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence (Institute of Political Studies), a Diplôme d'études approfondies of European History of doctrines and political institutions at the Università degli Studi di Milano with Professor Albertoni in 1994-1995. Alexandre del Valle has studies the Political Life of Lebanon and the legal status of Jewish and Christian minorities in Muslims states at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Beyrouth. Del Valle has studied geopolitics and Islamic World with Yves Lacoste, Pierre-Marie Gallois, Bruno Étienne, Gilles Kepel and Bat Ye'Or. [edit] BibliographyHe is the author of:
His next book, based on his PhD research and due in December 2009 in Italy (Lindau) and in France (Les Syrtes) is entitled The Reds, The Browns and the Greens (Communists, Nazis and Islamists). It describes the new anti-western and anti-American totalitarian Axis composed by Islamists, nostalgics of Communism and Nazism [2]. [edit] Columnist careerHe is a regular columnist at Le Figaro, France Soir, Israel Magazine, La Une, Quaderni geopolitici, Europa dei Popoli and others. He publishes articles in geopolitical magazines and reviews such as Daedalos Papers, Nova Storica, Politique Internationale, Herodote, Outre Terre, Geostrategics, Geopolitical affairs, Stratégiques and others. [edit] Academic careerHe is the co-founder and member of the Scientific Council of Geopolitics of Daedalos Institute[3], based in Nicosia, Cyprus. He has been teaching Geopolitics at the Ecole de Guerre Economique (EGE) and is currently a associate researcher at Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics. Since 2004, in the framework of Daedalos Institute, Alexandre del Valle is studying the growth of Political Islam in Turkey and its application to accede to the European Union. Del Valle claims to work with moderate Muslims such as Mezri Haddad, Houchang Nahavandi, Jbil Kebir or Mohamed Sifaoui, who publicly supported him and explained that Del Valle was a supporter of a modern and secular Islam and only denounced radical islam just as many Muslims do[4]. [edit] Political careerApart from being a geopolitician, he is, together with Rachid Kaci, the founder of the liberal-conservative Right, La Droite Libre, which is a branch of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), the French ruling party. The Droite Libre[5] slogan runs: "Secularity, defence of the West and Freedom, and struggle against politically correctness". Before belonging to the UMP, Del Valle belonged since 1993 to the Rally for the Republic, the former Gaullist ruling party and from 1998 to 2001 to the RPF, a souverainist-Gaullist movement led by former minister Charles Pasqua and by Philippe de Villiers. [edit] Main ideas, beliefs and present researchesAlexandre del Valle has passed a geopolitical PhD on the Red-green-brown alliance. He contributes to a better analysis of new totalitarian threats. One of his major references is Karl Popper and his historical work: The Open Society and its Enemies. Del Valle describes what he calls the new Western and European Munich in the face of Islamist fascism. He also analyses, as Bat Yé'or, the dhimmitude which has gradually been befalling the declining "psychologically as well as demographically" countries of Europe which seem to be sinking into a condition which Bat Ye'or has described as Eurabia. [edit] Theory on red-green-brown alliance against the WestDel Valle describes the emergence of a Red-Green-Brown Axis: the Red of the extreme left, the Brown of the extreme right, and the Green of Islamism. The different components of this Axis have for a common objective the struggle against the new faces of Evil: America, Israel,Imperialism, and even the West in its entirety. According to his theories, Islamism, the third totalitarianism after Nazism and communism, extents the aspirations of its two predecessors: seizing the struggle of civilizations and religions then declaring war on the non-Muslim world in the name of the "dispossessed". This totalitarianism seduces as much those nostalgics for the pagan Third Reich, resolved to eradicate Judaism and Christianity, as it does those partisans of communism, determined to come to blows with capitalism and the West. This junction of Red, Brown and Green totalitarianisms around the cause of Palestinian martyrs, Iraqis and Afghans, as much as the revolutionary figure of Usama bin Laden, confirms the leadership, henceforth uncontested, of revolutionary Islamism. From now on, this exerts a real fascination upon the other totalitarian options defeated by history (Nazism and Communism) and, consequently, condemned either to reconstitute themselves or to join the Islamist revolution in order to pursue their struggle against liberal democracies. According to Alexandre Del Valle, this alliance between the New Third World (Hugo Chavez's anti-American regime and its Bolivian and Cuban allies), the Islamists and the Rogue States such as Iran, Syria, North Corea, Sudan and pro-Palestinian terrorists movements will be in the future the Main danger for both North America and Europe. [edit] Pan-West: the new paradigmAlexandre del Valle calls to built a New "Pan-West"[6] organization which would gather more strongly USA and old Europe, trying to convince Russia to join it instead of supporting anti-western coalitions led by China, Iran and Venezuela. In 2000, after the Kosovo war, Del Valle wrote that it is necessary for the West to make self criticism on the Washington and Europeans mistakes when USA and EU supported the Islamists and the Saudis and partly still do it. He also deplores the anti-Russian and anti-Serbian attitudes that agitated the cold war period and incited Moscow to join the wrong and anti-western Axis. Back then, he condemns those expressing anti-American feelings in Europe, Latin-America and Russia. That for, he suggests the promotion of a strategic alliance between the 3 western keystone states. USA, Orthodox Europe and Western Europe should build a stronger alliance in the face of Islamic threat. [edit] Theory on post-Kemalist TurkeyFollowing the above demonstration, Del Valle opposes Turkey to adhere to the EU[7]. According to Alexandre del Valle, Turkey is neither European geographically (except for Istanbul and Thrace); nor is it European in terms of its habits nor in terms of its cultural consciousness. Even if a small Kemalist minority or the inhabitants of the poshy suburbs of Istanbul feel European, the inhabitants of east Istanbul, Ankara or Anatolia feel closer to their Iraqi neighbours than to the European or even the Christian Greek. Del Valle explains that the NATO, which Turkey belongs to, is not the key locks for the entry into the European Union. Saying that it is necessary to integrate Turkey so as to show that Europe is not a Christian club and does not reject an Islamic candidate is not rational. And seeing Turkey as a secular exception and natural ally against Islamism thanks to the legacy of Ataturk is erroneous. Because the new post-kemalist Turkey, led by Erdogan and Islamic ruling party AKP, allows and claims back all that which was rejected by Mustapha Kemal Ataturk: the Hijab, the Islamic political parties and compulsory religious instruction at school[8]. Del Valle says that Kemalism was dismantled in the 50s and 60s with the governments of Adnan Menderes and Süleyman Demirel and got politically dead under Turgut Özal, the architect of the re-Islamization which abolished the article 163 that had prohibited the Islamist parties. A country like Turkey which is ruled by a party stemming from an Islamist movement which has been attaining victory in elections since the beginning of the 90s is not any more a secular and kemalist country. But it is what he calls a "post-kemalist" State. The main Theory of del Valle is that Europe and US have become the main allies, capable of imposing the dismantling of the militarist-Kemalist power in Turkey, in the name of western democracy. The first goal of AKP is to avenge, after having perfected the de-Kemalization of the country, the affront suffered in 1923 at the time of the abolition of the Caliphate and the Shariah. By the way, if Turkey would access the European Union, Europe would have for its immediate neighbours Iran of the Mullahs, Syria - sponsor of Hezbollah and Irak. Finally, he advocates that the best way to preserve the Kemalist exception and secularism in Turkey would keep Turkey outside of Europe and to build what President Nicolas Sarkozy calls a Special Partnership. [edit] ControversiesThe first book of Alexandre del Valle provoked a controversy in France and in the USA. Del Valle's main theory, inspired by Samuel Huntington and Pierre-Marie Gallois, was criticized and analysed in Middle East Quartely, published in September 1998, by Bat Ye'or[9], who reproached him being too much hostile to Bill Clinton US administration but congratulated him for denouncing the Islamic threat willing to conquer the world. After 2000, Bat Ye'Or[10] and Daniel Pipes noticed that Alexandre Del Valle was not anymore anti-American and became a supporter US Administration. In an other article published in Middle East Quartely, Spring 2000 [11], french-American geopolitician Laurent Murawiec member of the Hudson Institute, reproached Del Valle from having supported the Serbian during the Balkan wars. Murawiec defines Del Valle as essentially hostile to Muslims and criticizes its analysis on American former global pro-Muslim strategy during the Cold War. In his website, we can find his answer to Laurent Murawiec[12]. "History and the tragedy of September 11 have proven me right", writes Del Valle. He adds that Mr. Murawiec omits to mention that since his first book written at a younger age, Del Valle has written five additional books. Three of them including Le Totalitarisme Islamiste a l'assaut des démocraties has been defined as a "pro-American and pro-zionist book"[13][14]. Additionally, since the September 11 attacks in 2001, Del Valle has written chronicles and articles published in Le Figaro and Politique Internationale where he calls for a union to be formed with the United States and in which he denounces all forms of anti-western and anti-American feelings. Murawiec himself has written an essay which also deplores the present pro-Saudi and pro-islamist strategy and politically correcness of American presidents who never dared nominating Saudi Arabia and wahhabism as the real ennemy and the supporters of Radical Islam [15]. Around 2002, Del Valle has been attacked by extreme-right, left wing[16] and extreme left magazines such as Le Monde Diplomatique[17] and the pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist MRAP[18]. Some extreme right movements, believing that Alexandre del Valle had been close to their visions in his early writings on Islamism and America, denounce now his Zionism and the fact he was very close to the Jewish Community. We can read: Del Valle share Zionists ideas [19] or The "outing" of Alexandre del Valle, reveals its close links with the Zionist ultra-right[20]. In an article published in April 2002[21], french far-left-trotskyst organisation Ras l'front claims that Alexandre Del Valle had originally set out its arguments in far right-wing circles, especially during lectures at meetings of the ultra right or the New Right. Del Valle refutes the claims and bring the matter in courts[22]. These trials with peripeteias eventually resulted in a decision from the 11th Chamber of the Court of appeal of Paris in 2005, which dismissed Del Valle who carried out an action for defamation against Ras L'front (diffamation)[23][24][25]. In two other trials, Alexandre del Valle and his lawyer, Gilles-William Goldnadel (fr), the french President of "Droit à la Sécurité" and "France Israël association" (who also was Oriana Fallaci's lawyer in France), won two other cases : one in 2006 against the MRAP, an antiracist organization led by french communist Mouloud Aounit, and a second against Canal+ (TV Channel), in 2007 (17th court of Paris). The 17th court of Paris dismissed the MRAP, who had published in 2003[26] a special report on anti-Arabs, Zionists and Far right networks in France. This MRAP Report blamed Alexandre del Valle and other intellectuals such as Guy Millière (fr), Michel Darmon (former France-Israel's President) or William Goldnadel to be Islamophobes and to support Zionists organizations such as the UPJF (Union of French Jewish Chairmans), Likoud, KKL, or Bnai Brith. The 17th Court of Appeal decided that the MRAP had not the right to accuse Alexandre del Valle to be "islamophobe" and was dismissed after having tried to make Del Valle and Guy Millière condemned for abusive action for defamation. He does not deny that he made errors in the past making speeches with controversial intellectuals from every political creed in the context of the presentations of his books. But he precises that his political "godfathers" were gaullists and former popular "resistants" such as Alain Griotteray (fr), Pierre Marie Gallois, the former nuclear and geopolitical adviser of Charles De Gaulle, Gabriel Kaspereit and Jean Matteoli[27]. [edit] References
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