Alexandre Adler is a French historian, journalist and expert of contemporary geopolitics, the former Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Middle E.
Background
A Maoist in his youth and then a member of the Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party)), he shifted to the right at the end of the 1970s and has since become close to United States neoconservatives, as did his wife Blandine Kriegel (daughter of the communist Resistant Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont).
Education
École Normale Supérieure.
Career
He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur (2002). Adler is the counsellor of Roger Cukiermann, chairman of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF, Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France). Born in 1950 in Paris into a German-Jewish family, which survived World World War II and the Holocaust, Adler is a history graduate of the École normale supérieure (1969–1974).
He directed the Chair for International Relations of France’s Ministry of Defense Interarmy College of Defense (1992–1998) where he remains a professor of higher military learning.
After collaborating with French daily Libération (1982–1992), Adler went on to become the editorial director of the Courrier International (1992–2002), a weekly selection of significant articles from the international press Adler served as an editorialist for the French daily of record Le Monde and collaborated with several French weeklies, including Le Point and L’Express.
He currently sits on the editorial board of the conservative French daily Le Figaro. He has qualified the altermondialist movement as an "enemy of freedom," and supported both the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.
His positions have sometimes led to polemics, such as his qualification of France Inter radio journalist Daniel Mermet as a "Brejnevian journalist," head of Politis newspaper Bernard Langlois as a "repugnant journalist" (journaliste répugnant) and Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins Sans Frontières France as a "Jewish traitor" because of his criticisms of Israel and the United States" policies.
Adler had predicted John Kerry"s large victory over George Bush during the 2004 presidential election. One can approach the figures of Mussolini and Berlusconi", before stating, three weeks later: "Berlusconi"s total victory will finally permit to eradicate the League. lieutenant is in itself a victory of democracy.".
Views
Adler was one of the rare French intellectuals to defend George West. Bush"s candidacy against First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore during the 2000 presidential election.