Alain Dieckhoff(Sciences Po / CNRS) and Peter Lintl, (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) will discuss the long history of the war in the Middle East in a discussion moderated by Cornelia Woll, President of the Hertie School.
Dieckhoff will present the key insights of his book Israël-Palestine: une guerre sans fin?, which deals with the origins and dynamics underlying the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
In discussion with Peter Lintl, the panel will address central subjects such as the feasibility of a two-state solution, the role of Hamas, religious fundamentalism and nationalism, and the division of society in Israel.
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Speakers:
Alain Dieckhoff
Alain Dieckhoff is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the University of Paris 10-Nanterre. As a scholar he focusses on politics and society in Israel and his research has further dealt with the relationship between politics and religion, the transformation of contemporary nationalism and populism. His publications include The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2003; Routledge Handbook of Modern Israel (ed.), Routledge, London and New York, 2013; Nationalism and the Multination State, Oxford University Press, New York, 2016. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses at Sciences Po, he has taught at various universities abroad (Geneva Graduate Institute, Université du Québec à Montréal, Tel Aviv University, London School of Economics, Columbia University…). Moreover, he is co-founder of the Observatoire international du religieux, and Co-Director of the Chair for the Study of Religion, both hosted by Sciences Po. He is an international fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.
Peter Lintl
Peter Lintl is an associate at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) working within the Africa and Middle East Research Division. His work focusses on the Arab-Israeli conflict, the relations between Germany and Israel, Israeli domestic politics and political orthodoxy. After obtaining a PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, which included a research stay at the University of Tel Aviv, he worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Politics and Society of the Middle East at the Institute of Political Science at University Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2016 to 2022 he headed the project “Israel and its regional and global conflicts: Domestic developments, security issues and foreign affairs” at SWP. His expertise has been prominently featured in various German media outlets and he is currently teaching a class on the history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict at the Hertie School.