Aymeric Chauprade

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Aymeric Chauprade

Aymeric Chauprade (born January 13, 1969 in La Ferté-Bernard , Sarthe Department ) is a French politician and political scientist . Chauprade is known in France for his writings on geopolitics and military strategy .

In 2014 he moved into the European Parliament for the Front National (FN) and was a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group (ENF) from June to November 2015 . Then he left the party and parliamentary group and founded the Les Français Libres party . On April 18, 2018, he joined the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group , of which he became Vice-Chair.

Life and education

Aymeric Chauprade was born in 1969 in western France and grew up in Thomery near Fontainebleau in the Parisian region. His father is from Aquitaine and his mother from Brittany .

In 1993 he obtained a diploma from the Paris Institute for Political Studies ( Institut d'études politiques de Paris ). In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Political Science from Paris Descartes University . He also graduated in mathematics and international law . He also graduated from Sciences Po in Paris , a university for political studies.

Professional activities

Since 1994 Chauprade has worked as an editor at Editions Ellipses , where he was promoted to senior publishing director. After getting to know François Thual , a well-known expert on geopolitics, Chauprade began to deal more intensively with this topic. As a co-author, he published the extensive Dictionnaire de géopolitique (dictionary of geopolitics) together with Thual in 1997 .

Since 1998 Chauprade has been teaching geopolitics at the L'École de guerre military academy at the École Militaire in Paris. By 2009, around 4,000 senior officers from the French army and around 1,000 officers from abroad had attended his courses. Chauprade also teaches political science at the Sorbonne and geopolitics at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland . Since 2003 Chauprade has held the chair for geopolitics at the military academy Collège des Forces armées royales in Rabat , Morocco . Since 2005 he has been teaching geopolitics at the École Supérieure de Guerre in the Tunisian capital Tunis . In 2006 he was a lecturer in the master's degree in geopolitics at the Sorbonne. 2003–2009 he held the chair for the history of political ideas at the University of Neuchâtel.

Chauprade is an off- duty officer in the French Navy .

Publications

In addition to the 1997 Dictionnaire de géopolitique, Chauprade published the 1,200-page Géopolitique: Constantes et changements dans l'histoire ( Geopolitics: Constants and Changes in History ) in 1999 , which became a standard work and earned Chauprade recognition in the French military. Le Figaro and other newspapers praised the work in reviews.

In 2009 Chauprade published a geohistorical atlas with numerous maps and illustrations, the Chronique du choc des civilizations ( Chronicle of the clash of civilizations ), which quickly became a bestseller. From 2009 to 2011, 18,000 copies were sold.

Chauprade writes articles with a military and geopolitical focus for numerous French and foreign magazines. Chauprade also appears regularly on the French radio station Radio Courtoisie .

Memberships and functions

  • Chauprade is the director of the Revue Française de géopolitique ( French journal of geopolitics ), which he founded.

geopolitics

Mackinder's world map with the heartland or "Heartland" in the center of Eurasia

In his works and public statements, Chauprade pleads for a strategic alliance between Europe and Russia, which should appear on the world stage as an independent global player and defend its strategic interests against China and the USA. To this end, “continental powers” ​​- France, Germany and Russia - are to form a coalition on the continent of Eurasia in order to be able to assert themselves against the “Atlantic powers” ​​Great Britain and the USA as well as against China. Chauprade emphasizes the need for a multipolar equilibrium to maintain global peace and strongly rejects the current unipolarity of the US.

Here Chauprade refers primarily to two theorists of geopolitics, the Englishman Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) and his student, the American Nicholas J. Spykman (1893-1943). Her geostrategic theories of the “heartland” and the “peripheral countries” (→ Heartland theory ) postulated that control over the whole world could only be achieved through control over the “world island” of Eurasia. These should by maritime powers either the Heartland ( Heartland ) of Eurasia are dominated or Eurasian coasts ( border land to be placed under control). This is how the Eurasian powers inside the continent are to be kept in check. Both theories have in common that the continental powers must be kept apart permanently by an “Atlantic alliance” in order to prevent their alliance ( containment policy ). Otherwise such an alliance could gain dominion over Eurasia and thus over the whole world. According to this theory, avoiding this is the maxim of the geopolitics of the “Atlantic powers” ​​in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. Chauprade claimed on a blog that the "spirit of Mackinder" dominated all of America's strategic thinking.

In addition to these two concepts, Chauprade understands global geopolitics in the light of realpolitik , that is, of economic and purely practical state interests. In addition, he uses Samuel P. Huntington's concept of the clash of civilizations to explain geopolitical events. The mix of these approaches forms the core of the geopolitical direction that Chauprade has represented in his books and articles on geopolitics. Chauprade has claimed that his method of explaining geopolitics does not age. In the foreword to his book Geopolitics: Constants and Changes in History , he wrote in 1999: “One of the main strengths of this book is - and this deserves special attention - that it is designed in such a way that it is not subject to any aging process. This is because it is not a book of the current present, but one that contains the key to analyzing the current present. It emphasizes the constants of history, the fundamental mechanisms of geopolitics, and these are not subject to any aging process. "

politics

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First steps

Aymeric Chauprade has supported his friend Philippe de Villiers' list since the 2004 European elections . He was close to Action française (AF), the first royalist movement in France, for which he campaigned as a member of its educational organization. According to the AF, he was also a member of the management committee membre du comité directeur du mouvement in 2006 and 2007. He saw Kiel et Tanger as the main work of Charles Maurras , a symbolic figure of the AF, and as one of the most important works of French geopolitics.

Commitment to Marine Le Pen and the National Front

Chauprade joined the Front National in 2013, of which he was a member until 2015. He left the party because of Marine Le Pen's double "betrayal". She had deposed him as a consultant because she flatly rejected his theory of the clash of civilizations. In addition, she had disempowered Jean-Marie Le Pen.

At a working lunch in Brussels on November 11, 2014

Member of the European Parliament

In the 2014 European elections , he became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Front National . In November 2015, he left the party and wished the return of Philippe de Villiers , whom he had already supported in 2004, to politics. At the beginning of 2016 he founded the Les Français libres party .

Chauprade was a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom Group (ENF) from June 24th to November 9th, 2015 , otherwise he is non-attached. Previously he was chairman of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENL), a right-wing rallying party at the European level. He resigned from the chair in February 2015. He had previously claimed that Heinrich Himmler had two fetish objects in his office, namely Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Koran .

In the European Parliament, Chauprade has been a full member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) since July 1, 2014 , and in the delegation in the EU-Russia Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation (D- RU) . Before joining the ENF, he was an alternate member of the Committee on International Trade (INTA), the Delegation to the Cariforum-EU Parliamentary Committee , the Delegation to the Euro-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly , the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly .

Other political activities

Chauprade advises the President of the Dominican Republic , Leonel Fernández , as well as several leading politicians in the Middle East.

During the referendum in Crimea , Chauprade was an election observer for the Front National.

Positions and controversies

Attacks of September 11, 2001

Attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York

Chauprade claims in Chronique du choc des civilizations that there is an objective alliance between America and radical Islam. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 were planned and carried out by the US secret service . The collapse of the building was not achieved by the impact of the aircraft, but by controlled demolitions: "Seule une démolition contrôlée par des explosifs permet d'obtenir un effondrement aussi rapide et parfait."

After the book was published, Jean Guisnel accused him of falsifying history and spreading conspiracy theories on February 2, 2009 in Le Point . On the same day, Chauprade was dismissed from the military academy by France's Defense Minister Hervé Morin . A decision by the administrative court ( Tribunal administratif ) of Paris on this dismissal is interpreted controversially. Chauprade himself and some internet sources declare him the winner in the legal dispute; the court had declared the dismissal unlawful. Jean Guisnel, on the other hand, wrote in Le Point that although the minister had not dismissed Chauprade properly, the directors of the institutions concerned had the right to do so. Chauprade will still not teach at the military academy. In a civil lawsuit by Chauprade against Le Point, the court followed the newspaper's arguments in two instances in October 2009 and September 2010.

Wladimir Putin

Regarding the need for a Paris-Berlin-Moscow alliance, Chauprade writes: “There can be no project of a major power in Europe without a strong and independent Germany (Germany has been largely under American influence since 1945); there is no global equilibrium vis-à-vis American globalism without a strong Russia. ”Chauprade's concept of the geostrategic axis Paris - Berlin - Moscow has strong similarities with Vladimir Putin's proposal of a“ Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok ”. Putin wrote in November 2010 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Europe too needs its own visions for the future. And so we propose to shape this future together through the partnership between Russia and the EU . In this way we could jointly assert our right to success and the best competitiveness in the modern world ”. This idea of ​​a Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok can be found for the first time in the works of the right-wing Belgian theorist Jean-François Thiriart .

Private

Chauprade is married and has four children.

Publications

  • with François Thual: Dictionnaire de géopolitique. Budgets, concepts, authors . 2nd Edition. Ellipses / Marketing, Paris 1999, ISBN 978-2-7298-9984-4 (German. The dictionary of geopolitics. States, concepts, authors).
  • Géopolitique: Constantes et changements dans l'histoire . 3. Edition. Ellipses Marketing, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7298-3172-1 (German geopolitics: constants and changes in history).
  • Chronique du choc des civilizations . 3rd updated and expanded edition. Editions Chronique, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-918978-80-0 (The Chronicle of the Struggle of Civilizations).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Aymeric Chauprade: Géopolitique, constantes et changements dans l'histoire. (No longer available online.) In: edition.realpolitik.tv. Aymeric Chauprade, 2015, archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; Retrieved June 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edition.realpolitik.tv
  2. ↑ Aymeric Chauprade: Halford Mackinder and the Heartland. In: theheartlandblog.wordpress.com. The Heartland Blog, July 1, 2012, archived from the original on July 9, 2012 ; Retrieved June 25, 2015 . , no longer online since November 22, 2013. See the #HeartlandBlog team has removed all #AymericChauprade posts from the blog. , Statement on twitter.com, November 22, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Camille Bordenet: Européennes: un géopolitologue aux maneuvers pour le FN . In: Le Monde.fr . January 22, 2014, ISSN  1950-6244 ( lemonde.fr [accessed December 24, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Kiel and Tangier . ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. l'Action Française, December 16, 2004.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.actionfrancaise.net
  5. ↑ Camille Bordenet: Européennes: un géopolitologue aux maneuvers pour le FN . In: Le Monde.fr . January 22, 2014, ISSN  1950-6244 ( lemonde.fr [accessed December 24, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Emmanuel Galiero: Aymeric Chauprade: "Pourquoi je quitte le Front national" . In: Le Figaro . November 9, 2015, ISSN  0182-5852 ( lefigaro.fr [accessed December 24, 2016]).
  7. Jump up ↑ Marc de Boni, Emmanuel Galiero: Marine Le Pen désavoue Aymeric Chauprade après ses propos sur les musulmans . In: Le Figaro . January 19, 2015, ISSN  0182-5852 ( lefigaro.fr [accessed December 24, 2016]).
  8. ↑ a b EP: Aymeric Chauprage (all electoral terms). In: europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament, accessed June 25, 2015 .
  9. ^ Marc De Boni: FN: Aymeric Chauprade lie à nouveau islam radical et nazisme. In: Le Figaro. January 22, 2015, accessed June 25, 2015 (French).
  10. ^ Front National - Putin's friends in Paris . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed December 24, 2016]).
  11. ↑ a b Jean Guisnel: Chauprade, l'homme qui forme les officiers et déforme l'histoire, actualité Défense ouverte. (No longer available online.) In: Le Point. February 4, 2009, archived from the original on April 10, 2014 ; Retrieved June 25, 2015 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lepoint.fr
  12. ↑ L'Obs: Morin limoge un gradé pour ses propos sur le 11 September. In: tempsreel.nouvelobs.com. L'Obs, February 5, 2009, accessed June 25, 2015 (French).
  13. ↑ Le Figaro: 11/9 / complot: Morin limoge un prof. In: Le Figaro. February 5, 2009, accessed June 25, 2015 (French).
  14. ↑ Novopress: Aymeric Chauprade gagne son procès contre Hervé Morin ( French ) In: archives-fr.novopress.info . NOVApress. June 26, 2011. Archived from the original on February 18, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  15. ^ A b Jean Guisnel: Le tribunal administratif avalise le renvoi d'Aymeric Chauprade des écoles de la défense ( French ) In: Le Point . July 7, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  16. ↑ Aymeric Chauprade: Russia, the most important obstacle on the way to “Global America”. In: le-bohemien.net. Le Bohémien, June 17, 2012, archived from the original on June 19, 2012 ; Retrieved June 25, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Vladimir Putin: Putin: Plea for Economic Community - From Lisbon to Vladivostok. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 25, 2010, accessed June 25, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Chauprade, Aymeric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French political scientist and politician (Front National), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH La Ferté-Bernard , Sarthe department