• Date: November 21st, Thursday, 2019 17:30-19:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

On November 21st, SNUAC West Asia Center and Asia Regional Review Research Team are to hold ‘Asia Regional Advanced Seminar’ with Professor Anoush Ehteshami of Durham University, former vice president of The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
This seminar is on ‘The Geopolitics of Arab Uprisings’ and will examine the successive demolition of dictatorships in the Middle East starting with the 2010 Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, and the dramatic changes in the order of the Middle Eastern region after the movement had reached Syria. Furthermore, we seek to share our opinions on how each country may recover its power in today’s dynamic trends of the Middle East.

On November 21st, SNUAC West Asia Center and Asia Regional Review Research Team held ‘Asia Regional Advanced Seminar’ with Professor Anoush Ehteshami of Durham University, former vice president of The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

Under the topic, “The Geopolitics of Arab Uprisings”, Prof. Ehteshami talked about the influences that the ongoing movement of Arab people that started in Tunisie from 2010 has had on the geopolitical order of the Middle East. He emphasized that the civil wars in Syria and Yemen and the people’s resistance in Lebanon and Iraq all had the consistent goal of eradicating the existent corrupt power and securing a just system. Especially from this aspect, he analyzed how Syria, which was the most secularized state in the Middle East, had become the stage for the proxy war. After the lecture, participants shared their questions and opinions on how such a perspective could be applied to each state in the Middle East, and how the future balance in power would be organized in the Middle East.