Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes , born the September 9th 1949 with Boston in the Massachusetts is a American Journaliste .
Specialized in the analysis of the international policy and the Antiterrorisme, Daniel Pipes is a journalist and old discussed Universitaire, today media figure of the current American Néoconservateur.
Biography
Daniel Pipes is the oldest son of Richard Pipes. This one, Jewish Polish taken refuge of Europe with his wife at the beginning of the Second world war and become professor of History of Russia with the university of Harvard, was made known like a Soviétologue affiliated with the Republican party and supporting radical positions with respect to the Communisme during the Cold war.
Daniel wished to become Mathématicien but, after its second year in Harvard, it realized that it did not have the aptitudes necessary to dominate this field. It then decided to study the Islamic history, for which it had developed an interest following voyages with the the Sahara and the the Sinai.
After its studies, it spent two years to learn the Arab with the Cairo then it turned over to Cambridge to take down its doctorate in medieval history just Islamic at the time when the Ayatollah Khomeiny launched the Iranian Révolution, which encouraged it to concentrate no longer on medieval Islam, but on its modern presence.
With the beginning of the year 1980, Pipes taught with the Université of Chicago, Harvard and the Naval War College, but he did not manage to obtain a station of holder and in 1986, he moved with Philadelphia to direct the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a laboratory of ideas founded in 1955 by Strausz-Crested Robert, an Austrian resolutely anti totalitarist before creating the Forum of the Middle East in 1994.
It is partly thanks to the networks of his/her father, in particular within the administrations Ford, Reagan then Bush Senior, that Daniel Pipes, specialized in the study of the the Middle East, had access to positions of responsibility under the first administration (2000-2004) of President George W. Bush. It is what enabled him to obtain a rapid notoriety after the attacks of World Trade Center.
Between on September 11th 2001 and on September 11th 2002, it intervened in 110 television programs and 450 radio programs.
In 2003, president Bush names it with the council of the Institut of the United States for peace, an organization not partisane, supported by federal funds and dedicated to the peaceful resolution of conflicts which it will leave in 2005.
Daniel Pipes is chronicler with the New York Post , a newspaper considered as close relation of the American néoconservateurs. Its leading articles are sometimes taken again by the Wall Street Journal , the Los Angeles Times and the New York Sun .
These three last years however, its positions - sometimes considered to be extreme - as well as the vexations of the intervention in Iraq which he had encouraged degraded its recent notoriety. In spite of an important militancy through its Internet site, its media influence seems declining.
Political positions
Studying with the beginning of the year 1970, it was characterized on several occasions by its opposition to the peace marches, organized against the war of Vietnam.From 1986 to 1993, he is editor association of the Orbis newspaper where he publishes articles preaching the support for Iraq of Saddam Hussein against close Iran (Guerre Iran-Iraq). It is what it names “the alternative of Baghdad”, according to the title of the work of Laurie Mylroie.
Daniel Pipes however supported American engagement against Iraq in 2003, asserting threat which the supposed Iraqi mode and its arsenal of weapons of massive destruction represented.
Today media figure of the current American neoconservator, Daniel Pipes supports resolutely the State of Israel and regularly expresses its regrets on the lack of firmness of Tel-Aviv with respect to the Palestinians. Daniel Pipes opposed the withdrawal of the Israeli establishments of Gaza in 2004 and regularly decided against the creation of a Palestinian state.
Recent official stations
Since 1980, he is member of the Council one Foreign Relations.He is the founder of the Forum of the Middle East .
He was named per G.W. Bush with the head of the Institut of the United States for peace, station which he occupied of August 2003 in January 2005.
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