{"id":816,"date":"2015-06-26T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-06-26T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T09:44:35","slug":"spire-irish-times-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"SPIRe Irish Times articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

No\u00a0better time than Summer Term to look back and reflect on the events of the past year. \u00a0Below is a selection of\u00a0articles with a middle-eastern focus written by SPIRe’s\u00a0Dr. Vincent Durac<\/a>, and\u00a0published in the Irish Times\u00a0 between December 2014 and May\u00a02015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– ‘Charlie Hebdo: colonial history, foreign policy make France a target’, Irish Times, January 08 2015: http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/europe\/charlie-hebdo-colonial-history-foreign-policy-make-france-a-target-1.2059424<\/a><\/p>\n

– ‘Middle East Solutions Must Come From Within’, Irish Times, December 27 2014: http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/review-of-2014-middle-east-solutions-must-come-from-within-1.2044098<\/a><\/p>\n

– ‘Islamic State Killings Challenge Fragile Democratic Transition in Tunisia’, Irish Times, March 22 2015 at: ‘ http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/islamic-state-killings-challenge-fragile-democratic-transition-in-tunisia-1.2147631<\/a><\/p>\n

– ‘Islamic State and the Battle for Iraq’, Irish Times, May 23 : http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/islamic-state-and-the-battle-for-iraq-1.2222284<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Dr.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Vincent Durac lectures in Politics of Development; Middle East Politics; the International Politics of the Middle East ;and Political Islam in the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. His research is focused on a number of aspects of contemporary Middle East Politics, including political reform, the role of civil society the impact of external actors in the region, and Yemeni political dynamics. He is a visiting lecturer in Middle East Politics in Bethlehem University in Palestine. He is a Council member of the Council of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No\u00a0better time than Summer Term to look back and reflect on the events of the past year. \u00a0Below is a selection of\u00a0articles with a middle-eastern focus written by SPIRe’s\u00a0Dr. Vincent Durac, and\u00a0published in the Irish Times\u00a0 between December 2014 and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,103,104,57,101,105,102,61,106],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opiniondebate","tag-arab-spring-middle-east-and-north-africa","tag-charlie-hebdo","tag-colonial-history","tag-democracy","tag-dr-vincent-durac","tag-iraq","tag-islamic-state","tag-spire","tag-tunisia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}