| SENIOR
ADVISORY BOARD
 HONORARY
BOARD MEMBERS
Francois
Delattre, Ambassador of France to the United States
Robert
Paxton, Professor Emeritus at Columbia
BOARD
MEMBERS
Robert Pelletreau
Donna Redel
Ghassan Salame,
Chairman of the Board
George Stone
Roland Tricot
SPONSORS
ENDOWMENT SPONSORS
The Alliance Program is
endowed at Columbia University, for what it is the first
joint endowment of this kind with international partners.
Sponsors of the Alliance endowment include:
French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Columbia University
Ecole Polytechnique
Sciences Po
Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
Conseil Regional d'Ile
de France
See Press Release on the launch of the endowment on the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
CORPORATE
SPONSORS
BNP
Paribas North America
Calyon
Gide
Loyrette Nouel LLP New York
GOVERNMENT
SPONSORS
French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
French
Ministry of Higher Education
Conseil
Regional d'Ile de France
INDIVIDUAL
SPONSORS
Albouy,
Pierre
Anders, Alan
Audi, Joseph
Camus, Philippe
Cohn, Stephanie
De Clapiers, Luc
Debray, Pierre
Gambini, Brigitte
Ginsbury, John
El Chaar, Edgard
Kassouf, Michael
Malamed, David
Merle, Emmanuel
Moneton, Jean-Noël
Raffet, Serge
Stone, George
Ross, Alfred
Shearer, Philip
Tricot, Roland
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Robert
Paxton
Professor Emeritus of History
at Columbia University
Robert Paxton is an Emeritus Professor of History
at Columbia University.
Robert Paxton
is the author of ground breaking book "Vichy
France, Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944" (1972).
His research on France and Europe during World War II have
changed the historical understanding of France's Vichy Regime,
as he used exceptional empirical evidence to demonstrate
that Vichy was a voluntary program rather than a forced one
by German pressure. This pathbreaking work and the author
have earned respect amongst both American and French modern
historians. Robert Paxon was called in for the trial of Maurice
Papon, who was convicted for crimes against humanity in 1998.
Robert
Paxton’s more recent work include “The
Anatomy of Fascism” (2004) , which offers both a non-traditional
conceptualization and a working definition of fascism: ''A
form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation
with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by
compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which
a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working
in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites,
abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive
violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of
internal cleansing and external expansion.''
Robert Paxton was educated at Washington and Lee, Oxford,
where he was a Rhodes scholar, and at Harvard, where he earned
the Ph.D. He is a fluent francophone and Francophile.
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