The reconfiguration of the Middle East: debate at the ‘Meetings’ of Diplomacy News

The professor of Arab and Islamic Studies Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio analyzed the scenarios that open up in the region after the war between the United States and Israel against Iran

On the right, the speaker, Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, together with the director of Diplomacy News, Alberto Rubio. /Photos: Juan D. Latorre

The future that opens up in the Middle East due to the war unleashed by Israel and the United States against Iran and its consequences for the reconfiguration of power balances in the region were the subject of analysis during the Meeting with the professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Complutense University Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño organized by Diplomacy News at the Hyatt Hesperia Hotel in collaboration with the Association of Foreign Diplomats (ADE).

More than forty people, including a dozen ambassadors, representing 25 embassies attended the debate held under the title ‘The reconfiguration of the Middle East: challenges and threats’, in which the role of the great powers —the United States and China— in the area was reviewed, as well as the role of other actors, such as the European Union, Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, among others.

The ‘Meetings’ of DiplomacyNews raise debates on current geopolitical issues as well as others related to Spanish politics. In all cases, the aim is that the discussions are useful for foreign diplomats stationed in Spain.

The next Meeting of Diplomacy News, the date and speaker of which will be announced in the coming days, will address the political situation in Spain when there is practically one year left until the end of the legislature.

The event was attended by 9 ambassadors and representatives from 26 embassies
The invited attendees enjoyed the experienced and well-studied presentation of the speaker on the reconfiguration of the Middle East
The ambassador of Palestine, Husni Abdelwahed, asked several questions to the speaker, which elevated the quality of the contents of the diplomatic meeting
From left to right, the ambassadors of Slovenia, Tadej Rupel; of Estonia, Andres Rundu, and of Hungary, Jorge Habsburg-Lothringen