Yves Roucaute

Yves Roucaute (born 1953 in Paris) is a French philosopher (epistemology, political theory, theology), Phd (Law and Political science), Phd (philosophy), writer, professeur agrégé in philosophy, professeur agrégé in political science, teaching at Paris X University Nanterre, Previous President of the scientific Council of the "Institut National des Hautes Etudes de Securité et de Justice" (Security council of Prime minister), director of the review "Cahiers de la Sécurité", counsellor of the "réformateurs" group at the French National Assembly.

He has held a number of positions in cabinet ministers of right-wing governments, and is a close friend of Alain Madelin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and Nicolas Sarkozy.

He is also a journalist and columnist ("Canal +", "Figaro", "Le Monde", "Atlantico") He was editing director of some newspapers ("Evénement du Jeudi", "Alternances") and he is the owner of newspaper in the south of France ("Le Bavar") and minority stockholder of some others.

Before the American troops, he arrived in Kaboul from a camp of Tajikistan, after his helicopter nearly crashed on the Hindou Koush mountains.

He has authored a number of books on philosophy, on theology, on economics, on the New world order of the 1990s, on defence policies and on the influence of religion in politics.