Thérèse Delpech (1948–2012)
Autor(a) de L'ensauvagement : Le retour de la barbarie au XXIe siècle
About the Author
Therese Delpech is director of strategic affairs at the French Atomic Energy Commission.
Obras de Thérèse Delpech
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Delpech, Thérèse
- Nome de batismo
- Delpech, Thérèse Marie-Joseph Yvonne Thomas
- Data de nascimento
- 1948-02-11
- Data de falecimento
- 2012-01-18
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- France
- Local de nascimento
- Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
- Local de falecimento
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Locais de residência
- Paris, France
- Educação
- Ecole Normale Superieure de Sevres, psychology
- Ocupação
- political scientist
professor of philosophy
intellectual historican
international relations expert
foreign policy analyst
author - Relacionamentos
- Delpech, Laurens (spouse)
- Organizações
- International Institute for Strategic Studies (board of directors)
Centre d'études et de recherches internationales = CERI, Paris
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
Institut français des relations internationales - Pequena biografia
- Thérèse Delpech, née Thomas, was born in Versailles, France, the daughter of a diplomat. She earned a doctoral degree from the École Normale Supérieure. She became one of France's leading foreign policy analysts and intellectual historians. Madame Delpech devoted most of her career to international relations and defense issues, subjects on which she published regularly in journals such as Foreign Policy, International Policy, and Commentary, as well as in French newspapers such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération.
She served as a technical adviser to Minister of National Education Alain Savary in 1981-1984, and to Prime Minister Alain Juppé for politico-military issues in 1995-1997. She also was researcher in the field of defense and strategic affairs for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992-1995. She became Director of Strategic Affairs at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (French Atomic Energy Commission).
She served two successive terms on the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a think tank based in London.
She was an associate professor of philosophy and a senior research fellow at the Center for International Studies (CERI). In 2000-2003, Madame Delpech served as France's Commissioner to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).
Among her many publications were the books L'Ensauvagement: Le retour de la barbarie au XXIe siècle (English translation, Savage Century: Back to Barbarism, 2005), which won the Prix Femina, and L'Appel de l'ombre (The Call of the Shadows: The Power of the Irrational, 2010). Her last book, L’homme Sans Passé: Freud et la Tragédie Historique (The Man Without a Past: Freud and Historical Tragedy), was published shortly before her death at age 63 in 2012.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 74
- Popularidade
- #238,154
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 20
- Idiomas
- 2
Thérèse Delpech is director for strategic studies at the Atomic Energy Commission of France and French Commissioner at the UN for the disarmament of Iraq. The original French version of the book, “L’Ensauvagement,” won the prestigious 2005 Prix Femina de L’essai. This English translation missed getting a four-star rating from me because I found it frequently very difficult to understand. On just about every page there were sentences that I needed to read over and over again trying to decipher what the author meant, and for many other sentences I was never able to comprehend what the author was trying to convey. I assumed that the problem was the translator, not the author.
I found many of her parallels between 1905 and 2005 eloquent and arresting, but it was toward the end of the book when she was discussing possible political futures for the year 2025 that my interest really piqued. Among many other predictions for 2025, the author suggests these two that I found particularly alarming: 1) the disintegration of Pakistan; 2) a significantly stronger and self-confident India in a military conflict with an economically and socially weakened China—an India that would have no trouble destroying the Chinese fleet in the Strait of Malacca.
Delpech’s point of view is decidedly European. As an American, I found it interesting to expose myself to this different perspective on past, present, and future world affairs. When the author makes it clear that she believes that the United States is out of control, I cannot disagree with her, and found it interesting to see that point well argued.
This book is recommended for persons interested in international relations.… (mais)