{"id":827,"date":"2026-04-03T12:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/?p=827"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:01:34","slug":"april-20-the-middle-east-in-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/news\/827","title":{"rendered":"[April 20] The Middle East in Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Since February 28th, the Middle East has been dragged in a new regional war which in many ways is different from former ones. Although the objective of regime change is not new (Iraq in 2003), the direct military involvement of Israel, along the United States, in a full-fledged war against Iran is indeed new. We will shed light on the various reasons that explain the Israeli rationale to go to war, in the post-October 2023 context, and the limits of this strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Alain Dickhoff, Directeur de recherche, CNRS, CNRS Research Professor, Centre for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Date: April 20, 2026 (Mon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Time<span class=\"s1\">: <\/span>17:30-19:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Venue<span class=\"s1\">: <\/span>Building 22-8F, Conference Room<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Registration URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/u2L48r59gsWqypdS8\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/u2L48r59gsWqypdS8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Flyer-Majlis-April-20-2026-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"841\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since February 28th, the Middle East has been dragged in a new regional war which in many ways is different fr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}