Alexandre del Valle

Marc d'Anna (born September 4, 1968 ), writing under the pen name Alexandre del Valle, is a Franco-Italian geopolitologist, writer, professor, columnist, and political commentator.

Del Valle specializes in geopolitics.

He is known primarily for his analysis of Islamic extremism, and his criticism of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's policies.

Del Valle is a proponent of the PanWest paradigm, which is the cooperation between the West and Russia against radical Islamism.

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 (Southern France).

His mother came from a Spaniard family partly settled in Oran, Algeria, and later in Marseille.

He was orphaned at age 4, and spent most of his childhood in a foster home where he grew up in a multicultural environment.

In 1991, while studying at the IEP in Aix-en-Provence, Del Valle joined the RPR UDF and then the RPF of Charles Pasqua and Philippe de Villiers.

In 1993, he graduated from the Institute of Political Studies, Aix-en-Provence, where he obtained a DEA (Master of Advanced Studies) in military history, security and defense.

He took interest in political science and geopolitical analysis when he joined Sciences Po Paris, where he prepared for the ENA exam.

Marc d'Anna joined the General Secretariat of National Defense (SGDSN) in 1997.

He underwent a security investigation, after which he was granted secret-defense clearance.

He worked as an editor-analyst at the Facts and Trends Letter of the International and Strategic Affairs section.

He worked in the territorial and international civil service before founding his consulting firm in Brussels.

He is a teacher in geopolitics at Sup de Co La Rochelle and at IPAG and works at the European University of Rome and at the International Institute of Geopolitics.

This theory was criticized by Bat Ye'or in the Middle East Quarterly published in September 1998.

In 1999, he signed the petition "Europeans want peace", initiated by the collective "No to war" to oppose the military intervention of NATO in Serbia.

In 2001 he joined the UMP with Rachid Kaci.

He coined the term "red–green–brown alliance" in 2002.

Del Valle focuses on Islamic extremism, geopolitical threats, civilizational conflicts, and terrorism, as well as Mediterranean issues such as Turkey's proposed accession to the European Union.

Del Valle wrote on international relations and geopolitics of the Arab-Muslim world.

In November 2002, he co-founded, with his friend Rachid Kaci, La Droite Libre, a liberal-conservative current, which is, according to Le Monde, "a current situated very much to the right within the UMP, and with positions that are resolutely pro-Israeli and not very Islamophobic. On November 17, 2002, during the constituent assembly of the UMP, Rachid Kaci and he, under a pseudonym, ran for the vice-presidency of the UMP with, as opponents, Alain Juppé or Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.

In 2012 he participated in an international counter-jihad conference in Brussels, billed as the "International conference for free speech & human rights".

He was an associate researcher at the Institut Choiseul until 2014, and co-founder of the Mediterranean Geopolitical Observatory (based in Cyprus).

He was a columnist for Nouvelle Liberté (Marseille), La Une, Le Figaro Magazine, Le Figaro, Le Spectacle du Monde, Israel Magazine, Liberal (Italy), France-Soir, and Atlantico.

He writes regularly for Atlantico, Le Figaro and Valeurs Actuelles.

He collaborated on geopolitical reviews, Herodotus, Strategic, Geostrategic, Nova Storica, Risk, International Policy, Outre-Terre, Daedalos Papers, Geopolitical Affairs, and Geoeconomics.

He focuses on the geopolitics of the Arab-Muslim world.

He is a member of various think tanks, including the Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics.

He is a director of the consultancy firm and think tank Géopol Consultings.

In 2015, he obtained a DEA (Master of Advanced Studies) from the University of Milan in the history of political doctrines and institutions.

He earned a Ph.D. in contemporary history, from the Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3.

In 2017, he participated in a conference organized by Salvo Pogliese MEP and his European People's Party group.

In December 2019, Del Valle was consulted, along with Emmanuel Razavi of GlobalGeoNews, on radical Islamism, by French Senate Vice President Nathalie Delattre, as a geopolitologist, consultant, and essayist, for the Commission of Inquiry on Islamist Radicalization and the Means of Combating It.

In 2022, in his preface to La mondialisation dangereuse, the geopolitologist and former president of La Sorbonne Jacques Soppelsa presented Del Valle as "a representative of the new generation of geopoliticians who have nothing to envy their American counterparts".

He stated that he was deepening his analysis of globalization, too often understood as "non-frontier", in "an innovative and counter-intuitive logic that would surprise his readers and detractors".

In 2019, he spoke at a conference organized by Costas Mavrides MEP, a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group.

Del Valle's first book, Islamism and the United States: An Alliance against Europe, sparked controversy in France and in the United States.

In the book, Del Valle claimed the U.S. government was deliberately using Islam to destroy Europe.