{"id":19468,"date":"2026-03-23T07:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=19468"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:08:56","slug":"snuwac-book-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/snuwac-book-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"SNUWAC Book Talk: Two Perspectives on the Structure of Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflict: Externalism and Internalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> April 7th, Tuesday, 2026, 16:00 &#8211; 17:30<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Youngone Hall (Room 210), SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"e37db4f9-27b4-467b-99d1-512a637c7c07\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-3\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"505\">Presenter: Namsik In (Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy)<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"505\">With the war that began in February following attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel, the Middle East has once again drawn widespread public attention. The West Asia Center at SNUAC will host a book talk featuring Professor Namsik In of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, a specialist in Middle Eastern politics, on his new book <em data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"431\">Understanding the Contemporary Middle East<\/em>. The event will also offer an opportunity to explore two perspectives for interpreting the structure of Middle Eastern conflicts, including the current crisis.y films across a range of genres.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: April 7th, Tuesday, 2026, 16:00 &#8211; 17:30 Location: Youngone Hall (Room 210), SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Presenter: Namsik In (Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy) With the war that began in February following attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel, the Middle East has once again drawn widespread public attention. The West Asia Center at SNUAC will host a book talk featuring Professor Namsik In of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, a specialist in Middle Eastern politics, on his new book Understanding the Contemporary Middle East. The event will also offer an opportunity to explore two perspectives for interpreting the structure of Middle Eastern conflicts, including the current crisis.y films across a range of genres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19470,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468\/revisions\/19470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}