Alexandre del Valle
| Alexandre del Valle | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alexandre del Valle September 4, 1968 Marseille, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education |
Institute of Political Studies, Paris Institute of Political Studies, Aix-en-Provence |
| Occupation | writer |
| Political party |
Union for a Popular Movement (Present) Rally for the Republic (Formerly) |
| Spouse(s) | Monica Altmann (2001–present) |
| Website | AlexandredelValle.com |
Alexandre del Valle (born September 4, 1968) is a French writer, professor, columnist, and political commentator. He is known primarily for his analysis of radical Islam, his criticism of Erdogan's neo-ottoman, islamist-post-kemalist Turkey, and as a proponent of the PanWest paradigm (cooperation between the West and Russia against radical islamism and of the Red-green-brown alliance).
His domains of interest focus on radical Islam, new geopolitical threats, civilizational conflicts, and terrorism, as well as Mediterranean issues such as Turkey's proposed accession to the European Union. Alexandre del Valle wrote on international relations and geopolitics of the Arab-Muslim world.
Del Valle was born in Marseille, France, on September 6, 1968 to Pieds-Noirs parents. His father was a Sicilian who settled first in Tunisia and later in Algeria and Marseille (South of France). His mother came from an anti-Franquist (Spaniard) family partly settled in Oran, Algeria and after in Marseille. In 2001, Del Valle married a Jewish-Argentine woman, Monica Altmann. The name Alexandre Del Valle is reportedly a pseudonym he uses for safety reasons because he has been a civil servant before writing and because of the controversial nature of his books and broadcasts.
Del Valle got his PhD in geopolitics-geography (cum laude) from the University of Montpellier III (France) in 2015. Before that, he attended the Paris Institute of Political Studies and obtained a diploma at the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence, and also 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), before specializing at the Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan (Italy) with Professor Albertoni (1994), and obtained a Diplôma of European History of doctrines and political institutions. His first studies on the field were dedicated to the civil war in Lebanon during the 80eas/90eas. After that first contact with Lebanon, he studied the situation of christian maronites in Lebanon and more generally the legal status of Jewish and Christian minorities in Muslims-arab states, in cooperation with Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Beyrouth and the Aix-en-Provence. Del Valle is a disciple of famous french general Pierre Marie Gallois, a hero of the second world war and former strategic adviser of General De Gaulle specialized on nuclear and geostrategic issues. He has also studied the method of "french school of geopolitics" with Yves Lacoste, and islamic-arab issues with other famous professors such as Bruno Étienne and Gilles Kepel.
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