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Le Monde diplomatique

February 16, 2024

Not to be confused with the daily newspaper Le Monde.

Le Monde diplomatique (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃d diplɔmatik]; meaning "The Diplomatic World",[7] and shortened as Le Diplo in French) is a French monthly newspaper founded in 1954 offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. As of 2023,[8] there are 33 editions (9 digital-only) in 24 languages worldwide.

Le Monde diplomatique
TypeMonthly newspaper
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)Groupe Le Monde
PublisherMaurice Lemoine
EditorBenoît Bréville
Founded1954; 70 years ago (1954)
Political alignmentAlter-globalization[1][2][3][4][5]
LanguageFrench, translated editions in English and 22 other languages
HeadquartersParis, France
Circulation179,943
(2020, French edition)[6]
Websitemonde-diplomatique.fr

The publication is 51% owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA, a subsidiary company of Le Monde which grants it complete editorial autonomy. Politically it is part of the left that is critical of neoliberalism[3] and has favoured alter-globalization since 1973.[2]

History edit

1954–1989 edit

Le Monde diplomatique was founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, founder and director of Le Monde, the French newspaper of record. Subtitled the "organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations,[9]" 5,000 copies were distributed, comprising eight pages, dedicated to foreign policy and geopolitics. Its first editor in chief, François Honti [fr], developed the newspaper as a scholarly reference journal. Honti attentively followed the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, created out of the 1955 Bandung Conference, and the issues of the "Third World".

Claude Julien became the newspaper's second editor in January 1973. At that time, the circulation of Le Monde diplomatique had jumped from 5,000 to 50,000 copies, and would reach, with Micheline Paulet, 120,000 in under 20 years.[10] Without renouncing its "Third-worldism" position, it extended the treatment of its subjects, concentrating on international economic and monetary problems, strategic relations, the Middle-East conflict, etc. One of the contributors was Samir Frangieh, a leftist Lebanese journalist.[11]

Le Monde diplomatique took an independent stance, criticising both the neoliberal ideology of the left and conservative policies represented by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.[citation needed]

1989–present edit

After the November 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the newspaper began to criticise what it described as an "American crusade".[10] Ignacio Ramonet was elected director or editor-in-chief in January 1991, serving until 2008.[citation needed]

Under his leadership, Le Monde diplomatique analysed the post-Cold War world, paying specific attention to "ethnic" conflicts that arose in this period: the wars in former Yugoslavia, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the conflicts in the Caucasus, etc., as well as to the new information technology.

Ramonet has also published books about the media and their relationship to national societies. As noted by François Cusset, French universities have not developed an interdisciplinary approach to media studies. He says that leftist journals including Le Monde Diplomatique have had an editorial approach that is committed to "critique of dominant media", both in terms of their roles in setting agendas and in enjoying status perks.[12] Both Ramonet and his successor, Serge Halimi, published books that critiqued the media from outside academic circles.[13]

The newspaper established financial and editorial independence from Le Monde in 1996, forming its own company. Le Monde owns 51%; the Friends of Le Monde diplomatique and Günter Holzmann Association, comprising the paper's staff, together own 49%.[14]

In an editorial in January 1995, Ignacio Ramonet coined the term "pensée unique" ("single thought") to describe the supremacy of the neoliberal ideology.[15] The newspaper supported the November–December 1995 general strike in France against Prime minister Alain Juppé's (RPR) plan to cut pensions.

Three years later, after a proposal in a 1997 editorial by Ramonet, Le Monde diplomatique took a founding role in the creation of ATTAC, an alter-globalisation NGO. It was founded to advocate the Tobin tax, and chapters have been started throughout the world. It now supports a variety of left-wing causes. The newspaper also took an important role in the organisation of the 2001 Porto Alegre World Social Forum.

After the Second Gulf War, started in 2003 under the George W. Bush administration, Le Monde diplomatique continued to criticise the US policy of "violent intervention" in the Middle East and the neoconservative project to "reshape" the so-called "Greater Middle East" region.[citation needed]

Ramonet devoted considerable space to reporting on Hugo Chávez, with whom he was said to have developed a close relationship, and his Bolivarian Revolution.[16][17]

Ramonet was succeeded by Serge Halimi who had a PhD in political science from the University of California Berkeley.[13] In 2018, LMD publishes a total of 37 print and online editions, in a total of 20 languages.[14]

The August 2017 issue of the monthly was not marketed in Algeria. According to sources close to the distributor, the newspaper did not get permission to do so. Algerian authorities gave no explanation. The heads of the newspaper claim that it was "banned" from sale in the country because of a report by journalist Pierre Daum. He is best known for writing a book about the harkis who stayed in Algeria after Independence, and about the difficult social and economic situation of some young Algerians.[18]

Le Monde diplomatique SA edit

André Fontaine, the director of Le Monde, signed a 1989 convention with Claude Julien which guaranteed the monthly's autonomy. But it gained complete statutory, economic and financial independence in 1996 with the creation of Le Monde diplomatique SA. With a donation from Günter Holzmann [fr], a German antifascist exiled before World War II to Bolivia, the monthly's employees acquired approximately one-quarter of the capital, while Les Amis du Monde diplomatique, a 1901 Law association of readers, bought another quarter.

Thus, since the end of 2000, the newspaper's employees and readers retain 49% of Le Monde diplomatique SA's capital, largely above the control stock necessary to control the direction and editorial line of the Monde diplo. The remaining 51% is owned by Le Monde.[10]

Controversies edit

Criticism edit

Jean-Marie Colombani, former editor of the daily Le Monde, was attributed by Le Monde diplomatique's former director general Bernard Cassen as saying: "Le Monde diplomatique is a journal of opinion; Le Monde is a journal of opinions."[19]

9/11 conspiracy theories edit

The Norwegian version of the July 2006 Le Monde diplomatique sparked interest when the editors ran, on their own initiative, a three-page main story on the September 11, 2001 attacks and summarised the various types of 9/11 conspiracy theories (which were not specifically endorsed by the newspaper, only reviewed).[20]

In December 2006, the French version published an article by Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of CounterPunch, which strongly criticised the endorsement of conspiracy theories by the US left-wing, alleging that it was a sign of "theoretical emptiness."[21] The Norwegian Le Monde diplomatique, did again however mark its difference from the mother edition by allowing David Ray Griffin's response to Cockburn to be published in their March 2007 issue.[22]

Advertising edit

Although Le Monde diplomatique publishes few advertisements in order to retain its editorial independence, it has sometimes been criticised for the quantity and nature of the published advertisements[23] In November and December 2003, two-page advertisements by IBM and a car manufacturer were placed. The issues of February and March 2004 contained advertisements by Microsoft in a "social" atmosphere with a picture of children, which led to agitation.[24]

Communication edit

On February 2, 1995, the newspaper became the first in France to have a presence on the internet.[25]

Le Monde diplomatique has a social media platform dedicated to Friends of Le Monde diplomatique.

The newspaper has the particularity of having very early on digitized on a single DVD-ROM, accessible for purchase, all the articles published in its edition in French since its foundation in 1954, German (same since 1995), English (same since 1996), Spanish (same since 1997), Italian (same since 1997) and Portuguese (same since 1999). Since then this voluminous archive has been converted into online access.

The monthly maintains an RSS feed and publishes on the social networks Facebook and Instagram.

Meat Atlas edit

 
Le Monde diplomatique co-publishes the Meat Atlas

Le Monde diplomatique co-publishes the Meat Atlas, which is an annual report on meat production and consumption.[26]

Overseas edit

The Friends of Le Monde diplomatique are a London-based society that promotes the English edition.[27] It organises regular talks at The Gallery in Cowcross Street, Farringdon.

References edit

  1. ^ Martell, Luke (2010). The sociology of globalization (Repr ed.). Cambridge: Polity. p. 243. ISBN 9780745636740.
  2. ^ a b Harvey, Nicolas. "Alternative Mass Media and Worldwide Mobilization: The Difficult Crusade of Le Monde Diplomatique against Neoliberalism". International Political Science Association. Université Rennes. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  3. ^ a b Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières; Alexis Delcambre (14 February 2017). "Le lustre retrouvé du " Monde diplo "". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  4. ^ Qui sommes-nous ?
  5. ^ Le Monde diplomatique passé au crible
  6. ^ Le Monde diplomatique at the Wayback Machine. OJD
  7. ^ "Plus de cent vingt mille abonnés". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). 1 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Éditions internationales". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  9. ^ " organe des cercles diplomatiques et des grandes organisations internationales "
  10. ^ a b c Numbers given in "Le Monde diplomatique depuis 1954...", Les Amis du Monde diplomatique, 1901 law association, 26 September 2006 (in French)
  11. ^ Who's Who in Lebanon (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 132. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.476. ISBN 978-3-598-07734-0.
  12. ^ François Cusset, "Media Studies: A French Blind Spot", InMedia, 1/2012; accessed 01 October 2018
  13. ^ a b Serge Halimi and Christine Larrazet, "At the Crossroads of Media, Media Critique, and the Critique of Media critics – An Interview with Serge Halimi, Editor-in-Chief of 'Le Monde Diplomatique' ", InMedia, 2/2012 (Interview 25 July 2012); accessed 01 October 2018 (in English)
  14. ^ a b "About LMD", Le Monde diplomatique, October 2018
  15. ^ Ignacio Ramonet, "Editorial: La pensée unique", Le Monde diplomatique, Janvier 1995 (in French)
  16. ^ Gonzalez, Angel (August 2003). "Chavez's Remarkable Staying Power Chavez in Person: The President As a Master of Improvisation". PBS. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  17. ^ Clark, A.C. (2009). The Revolutionary Has No Clothes /Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Farce. New York: Encounter Books. p. 126. ISBN 978-1594034459.
  18. ^ Aghiles, Rania (19 August 2017). "Le Monde diplomatique interdit en Algérie". Algérie Focus (in French). Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  19. ^ Cassen, Bernard (interviewee) (January–February 2003). "On the attack". New Left Review. II (19).
    Interview with Le Monde diplomatique's former director general Bernard Cassen. (in English)
  20. ^ 11.September - an innsidde jobb?, Norwegian edition of Le Monde diplomatique, July 2006. See also English translation: Kim Bredesen, Was 9/11 an inside job? 13 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine and other links
  21. ^ *(in English) Distractions from awful reality - US: the conspiracy that wasn't, by Alexander Cockburn in Le Monde diplomatique, December 2006 *(in French)Scepticisme ou occultisme? Le complot du 11-Septembre n'aura pas lieu, by Alexander Cockburn in Le Monde diplomatique, December 2006 *(in Persian) Iranian translation *(in Portuguese) PODERES IMAGINÁRIOS - A "conspiração" das Torres Gêmeas 7 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ "Konspirasjonsteorien om 11. september". Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  23. ^ "A propos de la publicité". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). 1 March 2002. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  24. ^ * (in French) " Le Monde Diplomatique, publicitaire des multinationales ? "
  25. ^ "Le Monde Diplomatique "ouvre le sur la toile"".
  26. ^ Heinrich Böll Foundation, Meat Altas, download Meat Atlas as pdf
  27. ^ "Le Monde diplomatique English edition". Le Monde diplomatique. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Monde diplomatique.
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  • French edition and at Exact Editions with trial issue
  • The French edition is accessible from 1954 to 1977 in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF

February 16, 2024
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Not to be confused with the daily newspaper Le Monde Le Monde diplomatique French pronunciation le mɔ d diplɔmatik meaning The Diplomatic World 7 and shortened as Le Diplo in French is a French monthly newspaper founded in 1954 offering analysis and opinion on politics culture and current affairs As of 2023 update 8 there are 33 editions 9 digital only in 24 languages worldwide Le Monde diplomatiqueTypeMonthly newspaperFormatBerlinerOwner s Groupe Le MondePublisherMaurice LemoineEditorBenoit BrevilleFounded1954 70 years ago 1954 Political alignmentAlter globalization 1 2 3 4 5 LanguageFrench translated editions in English and 22 other languagesHeadquartersParis FranceCirculation179 943 2020 French edition 6 Websitemonde diplomatique frThe publication is 51 owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA a subsidiary company of Le Monde which grants it complete editorial autonomy Politically it is part of the left that is critical of neoliberalism 3 and has favoured alter globalization since 1973 2 Contents 1 History 1 1 1954 1989 1 2 1989 present 2 Le Monde diplomatique SA 3 Controversies 3 1 Criticism 3 2 9 11 conspiracy theories 3 3 Advertising 4 Communication 5 Meat Atlas 6 Overseas 7 References 8 External linksHistory edit1954 1989 edit Le Monde diplomatique was founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve Mery founder and director of Le Monde the French newspaper of record Subtitled the organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations 9 5 000 copies were distributed comprising eight pages dedicated to foreign policy and geopolitics Its first editor in chief Francois Honti fr developed the newspaper as a scholarly reference journal Honti attentively followed the birth of the Non Aligned Movement created out of the 1955 Bandung Conference and the issues of the Third World Claude Julien became the newspaper s second editor in January 1973 At that time the circulation of Le Monde diplomatique had jumped from 5 000 to 50 000 copies and would reach with Micheline Paulet 120 000 in under 20 years 10 Without renouncing its Third worldism position it extended the treatment of its subjects concentrating on international economic and monetary problems strategic relations the Middle East conflict etc One of the contributors was Samir Frangieh a leftist Lebanese journalist 11 Le Monde diplomatique took an independent stance criticising both the neoliberal ideology of the left and conservative policies represented by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s citation needed 1989 present edit After the November 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 1990 1991 Gulf War the newspaper began to criticise what it described as an American crusade 10 Ignacio Ramonet was elected director or editor in chief in January 1991 serving until 2008 citation needed Under his leadership Le Monde diplomatique analysed the post Cold War world paying specific attention to ethnic conflicts that arose in this period the wars in former Yugoslavia the 1994 Rwandan genocide the conflicts in the Caucasus etc as well as to the new information technology Ramonet has also published books about the media and their relationship to national societies As noted by Francois Cusset French universities have not developed an interdisciplinary approach to media studies He says that leftist journals including Le Monde Diplomatique have had an editorial approach that is committed to critique of dominant media both in terms of their roles in setting agendas and in enjoying status perks 12 Both Ramonet and his successor Serge Halimi published books that critiqued the media from outside academic circles 13 The newspaper established financial and editorial independence from Le Monde in 1996 forming its own company Le Monde owns 51 the Friends of Le Monde diplomatique and Gunter Holzmann Association comprising the paper s staff together own 49 14 In an editorial in January 1995 Ignacio Ramonet coined the term pensee unique single thought to describe the supremacy of the neoliberal ideology 15 The newspaper supported the November December 1995 general strike in France against Prime minister Alain Juppe s RPR plan to cut pensions Three years later after a proposal in a 1997 editorial by Ramonet Le Monde diplomatique took a founding role in the creation of ATTAC an alter globalisation NGO It was founded to advocate the Tobin tax and chapters have been started throughout the world It now supports a variety of left wing causes The newspaper also took an important role in the organisation of the 2001 Porto Alegre World Social Forum After the Second Gulf War started in 2003 under the George W Bush administration Le Monde diplomatique continued to criticise the US policy of violent intervention in the Middle East and the neoconservative project to reshape the so called Greater Middle East region citation needed Ramonet devoted considerable space to reporting on Hugo Chavez with whom he was said to have developed a close relationship and his Bolivarian Revolution 16 17 Ramonet was succeeded by Serge Halimi who had a PhD in political science from the University of California Berkeley 13 In 2018 LMD publishes a total of 37 print and online editions in a total of 20 languages 14 The August 2017 issue of the monthly was not marketed in Algeria According to sources close to the distributor the newspaper did not get permission to do so Algerian authorities gave no explanation The heads of the newspaper claim that it was banned from sale in the country because of a report by journalist Pierre Daum He is best known for writing a book about the harkis who stayed in Algeria after Independence and about the difficult social and economic situation of some young Algerians 18 Le Monde diplomatique SA editAndre Fontaine the director of Le Monde signed a 1989 convention with Claude Julien which guaranteed the monthly s autonomy But it gained complete statutory economic and financial independence in 1996 with the creation of Le Monde diplomatique SA With a donation from Gunter Holzmann fr a German antifascist exiled before World War II to Bolivia the monthly s employees acquired approximately one quarter of the capital while Les Amis du Monde diplomatique a 1901 Law association of readers bought another quarter Thus since the end of 2000 the newspaper s employees and readers retain 49 of Le Monde diplomatique SA s capital largely above the control stock necessary to control the direction and editorial line of the Monde diplo The remaining 51 is owned by Le Monde 10 Controversies editCriticism edit Jean Marie Colombani former editor of the daily Le Monde was attributed by Le Monde diplomatique s former director general Bernard Cassen as saying Le Monde diplomatique is a journal of opinion Le Monde is a journal of opinions 19 9 11 conspiracy theories edit The Norwegian version of the July 2006 Le Monde diplomatique sparked interest when the editors ran on their own initiative a three page main story on the September 11 2001 attacks and summarised the various types of 9 11 conspiracy theories which were not specifically endorsed by the newspaper only reviewed 20 In December 2006 the French version published an article by Alexander Cockburn co editor of CounterPunch which strongly criticised the endorsement of conspiracy theories by the US left wing alleging that it was a sign of theoretical emptiness 21 The Norwegian Le Monde diplomatique did again however mark its difference from the mother edition by allowing David Ray Griffin s response to Cockburn to be published in their March 2007 issue 22 Advertising edit Although Le Monde diplomatique publishes few advertisements in order to retain its editorial independence it has sometimes been criticised for the quantity and nature of the published advertisements 23 In November and December 2003 two page advertisements by IBM and a car manufacturer were placed The issues of February and March 2004 contained advertisements by Microsoft in a social atmosphere with a picture of children which led to agitation 24 Communication editOn February 2 1995 the newspaper became the first in France to have a presence on the internet 25 Le Monde diplomatique has a social media platform dedicated to Friends of Le Monde diplomatique The newspaper has the particularity of having very early on digitized on a single DVD ROM accessible for purchase all the articles published in its edition in French since its foundation in 1954 German same since 1995 English same since 1996 Spanish same since 1997 Italian same since 1997 and Portuguese same since 1999 Since then this voluminous archive has been converted into online access The monthly maintains an RSS feed and publishes on the social networks Facebook and Instagram Meat Atlas edit nbsp Le Monde diplomatique co publishes the Meat AtlasLe Monde diplomatique co publishes the Meat Atlas which is an annual report on meat production and consumption 26 Overseas editThe Friends of Le Monde diplomatique are a London based society that promotes the English edition 27 It organises regular talks at The Gallery in Cowcross Street Farringdon References edit Martell Luke 2010 The sociology of globalization Repr ed Cambridge Polity p 243 ISBN 9780745636740 a b Harvey Nicolas Alternative Mass Media and Worldwide Mobilization The Difficult Crusade of Le Monde Diplomatique against Neoliberalism International Political Science Association Universite Rennes Retrieved 8 February 2015 a b Raphaelle Besse Desmoulieres Alexis Delcambre 14 February 2017 Le lustre retrouve du Monde diplo Le Monde in French Retrieved 30 January 2023 Qui sommes nous Le Monde diplomatique passe au crible Le Monde diplomatique Archive index at the Wayback Machine OJD Plus de cent vingt mille abonnes Le Monde diplomatique in French 1 December 2021 Retrieved 16 December 2023 Editions internationales Le Monde diplomatique in French 2023 Retrieved 19 September 2023 organe des cercles diplomatiques et des grandes organisations internationales a b c Numbers given in Le Monde diplomatique depuis 1954 Les Amis du Monde diplomatique 1901 law association 26 September 2006 in French Who s Who in Lebanon 19th ed Beirut Publitec Publications 2007 p 132 doi 10 1515 9783110945904 476 ISBN 978 3 598 07734 0 Francois Cusset Media Studies A French Blind Spot InMedia 1 2012 accessed 01 October 2018 a b Serge Halimi and Christine Larrazet At the Crossroads of Media Media Critique and the Critique of Media critics An Interview with Serge Halimi Editor in Chief of Le Monde Diplomatique InMedia 2 2012 Interview 25 July 2012 accessed 01 October 2018 in English a b About LMD Le Monde diplomatique October 2018 Ignacio Ramonet Editorial La pensee unique Le Monde diplomatique Janvier 1995 in French Gonzalez Angel August 2003 Chavez s Remarkable Staying Power Chavez in Person The President As a Master of Improvisation PBS Retrieved 19 February 2015 Clark A C 2009 The Revolutionary Has No Clothes Hugo Chavez s Bolivarian Farce New York Encounter Books p 126 ISBN 978 1594034459 Aghiles Rania 19 August 2017 Le Monde diplomatique interdit en Algerie Algerie Focus in French Retrieved 20 August 2017 Cassen Bernard interviewee January February 2003 On the attack New Left Review II 19 Interview with Le Monde diplomatique s former director general Bernard Cassen in English 11 September an innsidde jobb Norwegian edition of Le Monde diplomatique July 2006 See also English translation Kim Bredesen Was 9 11 an inside job Archived 13 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine and other links in English Distractions from awful reality US the conspiracy that wasn t by Alexander Cockburn in Le Monde diplomatique December 2006 in French Scepticisme ou occultisme Le complot du 11 Septembre n aura pas lieu by Alexander Cockburn in Le Monde diplomatique December 2006 in Persian Iranian translation in Portuguese PODERES IMAGINARIOS A conspiracao das Torres Gemeas Archived 7 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine Konspirasjonsteorien om 11 september Retrieved 6 December 2018 A propos de la publicite Le Monde diplomatique in French 1 March 2002 Retrieved 29 January 2018 in French Le Monde Diplomatique publicitaire des multinationales Le Monde Diplomatique ouvre le sur la toile Heinrich Boll Foundation Meat Altas download Meat Atlas as pdf Le Monde diplomatique English edition Le Monde diplomatique 2 November 2023 Retrieved 4 November 2023 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Monde diplomatique Official website French edition and at Exact Editions with trial issue The French edition is accessible from 1954 to 1977 in Gallica the digital library of the BnF Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Le Monde diplomatique amp oldid 1204216720, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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