{"id":44526,"date":"2013-10-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/leurope-au-moyen-orient-la-morale-peut-elle-tenir\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T04:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:52:19","slug":"leurope-au-moyen-orient-la-morale-peut-elle-tenir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/leurope-au-moyen-orient-la-morale-peut-elle-tenir\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe in the Middle East. Can Morality Stand in for Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'>The tragic fighting seen in Syria over the last two years or more and the chemical weapons attack of this August have stirred diplomatic services \u2013particularly Western ones\u2013 into action in recent months. As is often the case in Europe, the question has been about the limits, particularly the ethical and moral limits, beyond which it becomes necessary to act and about appropriate types of action. In an effort to answer these questions, particularly where the Middle East is concerned, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Drevet begins by reminding us of the three major types of action resorted to by the USA in comparable contexts over the last 50 years (directing operations from behind the scene, threatening with the \u201cbig stick\u201d, supporting \u201cmoderate\u201d Islamist regimes) and the limits of those types of action. He stresses the particularly chaotic situation that has prevailed in the Middle East since the \u201cArab Springs\u201d and the failure of the Islamist governments elected in the wake of those events. Lastly, he emphasizes the need for the European Union to show diplomatic coherence (to advance the humanitarian argument, but to do so without exception) and also to draw on its own experience to encourage regional integration that will, at the very least, make it possible to promote peaceful conflict-resolution.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragic fighting seen in Syria over the last two years or more and the chemical weapons attack of this August have stirred diplomatic services \u2013particularly Western ones\u2013 into action in recent months. As is often the case in Europe, the question has been about the limits, particularly the ethical and moral limits, beyond which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/leurope-au-moyen-orient-la-morale-peut-elle-tenir\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1324],"tags":[203],"keyword":[841,889,1234,1116,909],"class_list":["post-44526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-europeenne","category-revue-futuribles","tag-geopolitique-en","keyword-union-europeenne-en","keyword-politique-etrangere-en","keyword-droits-de-l-homme-en","keyword-moyen-orient-en","keyword-etats-unis-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60101,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44526\/revisions\/60101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44526"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=44526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}