Gérard Chaliand

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Gérard Chaliand (born 1934) is a French-Armenian expert in armed-conflict studies and in international and strategic relations, especially asymmetric conflicts (e.g., guerillas, terrorism). He is one of the most prolific international theoricians on these subjects. Gérard Chaliand is also a writer and a poet (La marche têtue suivie de Feu nomade, 1996).

1 Experience
2 Professional achievements
3 Selected bibliography
4 Sources
5 External links

[edit] 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 led research 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, whom he called one of the most efficient and ruthless guerrilla organizations^{[citation needed]}), Chechnia, Peru, Chiapas, and Kurdistan. He has developed theories and systems which explain the workings of asymmetric conflicts.

[edit] Professional achievements

Gérard Chaliand is not a member of any academic or think tank institutions, and only works freelance. 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 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.