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Gérard Chaliand (born 1934) is a French expert in geopolitics who has published widely on irregular warfare and military strategy. Chaliand analyses of insurgencies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, mostly based on his field experience with insurgent forces, have appeared in more than 20 books and in numerous newspaper articles. He has worked autonomously throughout his career, unconstrained by the perspectives of national governments and policy institutes. As a result, his work provides an independent perspective on many of the major conflicts characterized the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a published poet. == Early life and Education == Born in Brussels of Armenian parents and raised in Paris, Chaliand attended the ''lycée Henri IV'' in the Latin Quarter and spent nearly a year in London and the UK. He travelled in North Africa before entering the School of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Paris) were his studies focused on the history and culture of non-western societies. During his youth he hitchhiked across North Africa, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and India. He published his first book of poetry (''La Marche Têtue,'' Galimard) in 1959. In 1960 he joined the clandestine struggle for Algerian Independence. After Algerian independence, he worked in 1963-64 as an editor at ''Revolution Africaine,'' a weekly in Alger where he met many of the leaders of national liberation movements of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. He received his PhD from Sorbonne (Paris), in 1975. His dissertation ''Mythes révolutionnaires du tiers monde,'' was published in 1976 and quickly translated into English: Revolution in the Third World, Myths and Propects, Viking Press, Penguin, New York, 1977. Chaliand has been a participant-observer in various guerrilla conflicts: * Guinea Bissau, 1966 * North Vietnam, 1967 * Colombia, 1968/91 * Palestine/Israel, 1969/70/75/ 98/99 * Eritrea, 1977/91 * Afghanistan, 1980/82/2006-2012 * Iranian Kurdistan, 1980 * Salvador, 1982 * Angola, 1985 * Peru, 1985 * Philippines, 1987 * Nagorno-Karabakh, 1993 * Georgia (Ossetia), 1994/2006/08 * Burma, 1990/95 * Kashmir, 1999 * Sri Lanka, 1987/99/2007 * Iraqi Kurdistan, 1999-2008/2012-2015 * Iraq, 2003-2008 * Syria, 2014 He has conducted field studies for over four decades in: * Asia/Pacific * Caucasus and Central Asia * Central and South America * Middle East * Northern Africa * Russia * South and South East Asia * West, East and Southern Africa 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gérard Chaliand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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