{"id":3821,"date":"2025-09-15T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/?post_type=directors&#038;p=3821"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:40:13","slug":"dr-degang-sun","status":"publish","type":"directors","link":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/directors\/dr-degang-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Degang Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Dr. <span class=\"il\">Degang<\/span> Sun is a Professor of Political Science at the Institute of International Studies, Director of Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He was the Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0<em>Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies<\/em>\u00a0(published by Routledge, Taylor &amp; Francis), Professor and Deputy Director of the Middle East Studies Institute of Shanghai International Studies University, China. He was a visiting scholar at Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (September 2018-September 2019), and Senior Associate Member at St. Antony\u2019s College, Oxford University, and an Academic Visitor to Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2012-2013), Denver University (2007-2008), and Hong Kong University (2004-2005). His research interests are Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations; Great Powers\u2019 Strategies in the Middle East; China\u2019s Middle East Diplomacy.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3823,"template":"","languages":[39,13],"countries":[],"class_list":["post-3821","directors","type-directors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","languages-chinese","languages-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directors\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directors"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/languages?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}