Gerard Chaliand

Gérard Chaliand (born 1934) is a French-Armenian terrorologist (and also a writer and a poet La marche têtue suivie de Feu nomade, 1996).

Experience

After graduating from the National Institute of Oriental Civilisations and Languages (INALCO, Paris) and earning his PhD in third-cycle (Paris V – Sorbonne), Gérard Chaliand committed himself with anti-colonialist guerillas (like Portuguese Guinée-Bissau with Amilcar Cabral) sometimes as an observer, sometimes as a fighter. For approximatively 40 years, he has researched in more than 60 countries in Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (Central Asia). From 1964 to 2000, he completed more than 12 terrain-researches as a war observer in countries like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sri Lanka (with the Tamil Tigers), Chechnya, Peru, Chiapas, and Kurdistan.

Career

He has been a lecturer (maître de conférence) at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) (1980-1989), professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre, and director of the Centre Européen d’Etude des Conflits (1997-2000). Chaliand has been a consultant for the Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1984. Since 1970, he has been a visiting professor in several countries, including the United States, Japan, Canada, China, and Colombia.

Affiliations

• International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, International Advisory Council
• Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies, Kabul, Visiting Fellow
• He has been an independent advisor to the Center for Analysis and Planning of the French Foreign Ministry
• He has been Director of the European Center for the Studies of Conflict (Foundation for Strategic Research), Paris.

publications, links, notes

Selected bibliography

• The Art of War in World History. Univ. of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07964-9 ([1])
• Guerrilla Strategies: An Historical Anthology from the Long March to Afghanistan (California, 1982 [2])
• The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas. New York: Viking Books, 1995. xxi + 183 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references. ISBN 0-670-85439-5
• Atlas du millénaire, avec J-P. Rageau, Paris, éd. Hachette, 1998
• 2000 ans de chrétienté, Paris, éd. Odile Jacob, 2000 (avec Sophie Mousset).
• Puissances et influences. Annuaire géopolitique et géostratégique 2000 - 2001, co-edited with A. Blin et F. Géré, Paris, ed. Mille et une nuits, 2000.
• Guerres et civilisations. De l'Assyrie à l'époque contemporaine, Odile Jacob, 2005.
• 'Histoire du terrorisme : de l'Antiquité à Al-Qaïda, Bayard, 2004.
• Atlas du nouvel ordre mondial, Robert Laffont, 2003.
• Mythes révolutionnaires du Tiers-monde, Seuil, 1979.
• Anthologie mondiale de la stratégie, Robert Laffont, 1996.
• Voyages dans 40 ans de guérillas, 2006. ISBN 2-915752-13-3 (extracts)
• Le Génocide des Arméniens (avec Yves Ternon), Complexe, 1981, 1991, 2002.
• Slovik le déserteur in L'Algérie pour théâtre, L'Aube, 2003. (Theater)
• La marche têtue and Feu nomade, L'Aube, 1996. (Poetry)
• Poésie populaire des turcs et des kurdes.
• Ernesto Che Guevara. La Guerre de guérilla et autres textes militaires (with Juliette Minces), La Découverte, 1961, 2002.

Sources

• Biography of Chaliand and a postface by him

External links

• New York Review of Books
• Gérard Chaliand : « En Irak, l'insurrection armée montre sa terrible efficacité face à la meilleure armée du monde », April 2006 interview concerning the Iraqi insurgency
• Gérard Chaliand : Terrorismes et contre-terrorismes ; de la Palestine à l'Irak, June 25, 2003 conference of L'Université de tous les savoirs, published in Le Monde (audio files available)
• Groupes mafieux et globalisation du crime (video), conference of the Université de tous les savoirs
• Gérard Chaliand : «Les troupes américaines devront rester en Irak», June 9, 2006 interview in Le Figaro
• Le destin shakespearien de Saddam Hussein, dictateur sanguinaire et ambigu, par Gérard Chaliand, op-ed in Le Figaro, January 1, 2007
• Report before the French Senate, March 22, 2002
• Belgian parliamentary study day on terrorism
• Third World Definition