Alexandre Adler

Alexandre Adler 23 September 1950 18 July 2023 was a French historian journalist and expert of contemporary geopolitics the former USSR and the Middle East He was a Knight of the Legion of Honour 2002 A Maoist in his youth and then a member of the Communist Party PCF he shifted to the right at the end of the 1970s and later became close to US neoconservatives as did his wife Blandine Kriegel daughter of the communist Resistant Maurice KriegelValrimont Adler was 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 GermanJewish family which survived World War II and the Holocaust Adler was a history graduate of the École normale supérieure 19691974 He directed the chair for International Relations of Frances Ministry of Defense Interarmy College of Defense 19921998 where he remained a professor of higher military learning After working with the French daily Libération 19821992 Adler went on to become editorial director of Courrier International 19922002 a weekly selection of significant articles from the international press In the 1980s Adler played a prominent role in LAffaire Manouchian as the debate about who betrayed Missak Manouchian was known Adler was a defender of Boris Holban against the allegation that he was the police informer who betrayed Manouchian writing a series of articles in 198586 that argued that Holban was not in position to betray Manouchian even if he had wanted to Adler served as an editorialist for the French daily paper Le Monde and worked with several French weeklies including Le Point and LExpress He sat on the editorial board of the conservative French daily Le Figaro Alexandre Adler died in Paris on 18 July 2023 aged 72 Source Article Alexandre Adler from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30