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== Experience ==
 
== Experience ==
  
After graduating from the [[Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales|National Institute of Oriental Civilisations and Languages]] (INALCO, Paris) and earning his PhD in third-cycle ([[University of Paris V: René Descartes|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 [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|Tamil Tigers]]), Chechnya, Peru, Chiapas, and Kurdistan.  
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After graduating from the [[Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales|National Institute of Oriental Civilisations and Languages]] (INALCO, Paris) and earning his PhD in third-cycle ([[University of Paris V: René Descartes|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 [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|Tamil Tigers]]), Chechnya, Peru, Chiapas, and Kurdistan.  
  
 
== Career ==
 
== 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]].<ref>Ref needed</ref>
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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.<ref>Ref needed</ref>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
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*[[Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies]], Kabul, Visiting Fellow
 
*[[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 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.<ref>CAPS [http://www.caps.af/staff/Chaliand.asp Chaliand], accessed 27 December 2007</ref>
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* He has been Director of the [[European Center for the Studies of Conflict]] ([[Foundation for Strategic Research]]), Paris.<ref>CAPS [http://www.caps.af/staff/Chaliand.asp Chaliand], accessed 27 December 2007</ref>
  
 
==publications, links, notes==
 
==publications, links, notes==
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[[Category:Terrorologist|Chaliand, Gerard]]
 
[[Category:Terrorologist|Chaliand, Gerard]]
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[[Category:Terrorism Spin|Chaliand, Gerard]]

Latest revision as of 20:18, 1 March 2009

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.[1]

Affiliations

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

External links

Notes

  1. Ref needed
  2. CAPS Chaliand, accessed 27 December 2007