Lebanon : A Model of Consociational Conflict.
Title:
Lebanon : A Model of Consociational Conflict.
Author:
Schwerna, Tobias.
ISBN:
9783653007473
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (170 pages)
Series:
Europäische Hochschulschriften ; v.593
Europäische Hochschulschriften
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword - 7 -- Preface - 11 -- Abbreviations - 13 -- 1. Introduction - 15 -- 1.1 The Lebanese Conundrum - 15 -- 1.2 Previous Research - 19 -- 1.3 Relevance of the Topic - 25 -- 1.4 Definition of Terms - 26 -- 1.5 Goal of the Thesis - 30 -- 1.6 Methods and Data - 30 -- 1.7 Structure - 31 -- 2. The Lebanese Society and the Political System - 33 -- 2.1 The Lebanese Parties - 34 -- 3. The Intra-Case Comparison: Lebanon 1972-1975 and 2005-2008 - 39 -- 3.1 Poverty - 39 -- 3.2 Inequality - 40 -- 3.3 Political Structures - 43 -- 3.4 Centripetalism and its Limits - 45 -- 3.5 External Factors - 46 -- 3.6 Summary of the Comparative Case Study - 47 -- 4. Hypotheses and the Consociational Conflict Model - 49 -- 5. Test of Hypothesis 1 - 53 -- 5.1 The Independence Uprising as a Precedent for Successful, Nonviolent, Cross-Sectarian Collective Political Action - 53 -- 5.2 The Civil War and the Independence Uprising - 55 -- 5.3 Hypothesis 1: Results - 58 -- 6. The Independence Uprising: A Democratic Revolution? - 61 -- 6.1 The Significance of the Hariri Assassination as a Trigger - 61 -- 6.2 The Lebanese Regime Before and After the Independence Uprising - 64 -- 7. Testing Hypothesis 2 and the Model of a Consociational Conflict - 67 -- 7.1 The Usage of the "Democratic Revolution" in the Consociational Conflict - 67 -- 7.2 Crisis Containment of the Political Leaders - 70 -- 7.3 Domestic Coalition Making - 73 -- 7.4 The Lebanese Parties and Outside Supporters - 78 -- 7.5 The Nahr al Bared Fighting and Crisis Management - 85 -- 7.6 The Use of Violence in the Consociational Conflict - 89 -- 7.7 The Media as Instruments in the Consociational Conflict - 120 -- 7.8 The Economic Dimension of Consociational Conflict - 125 -- 8. Hypothesis 2: Results - 131 -- 8.1 Hypothesis 2a - 132 -- 8.2 Hypothesis 2b - 137 -- 9. Concluding Remarks - 139.
9.1 Further Theoretical Considerations - 139 -- 9.2 Limits of the Model's Applicability - 142 -- 9.3 Future Research - 143 -- 9.4 Lebanon at the Crossroads - 146 -- Afterword - 149 -- Literature and Sources - 151.
Abstract:
As sectarian and political tensions rose after March of 2005, scholars and journalists began to speculate that Lebanon was heading back into civil war. Much academic literature, in fact showed that the probability of regressing into such a state was very high. Although tensions did escalate and violence broke out on a number of occasions (culminating in several days of fighting in May 2008) the Doha agreement provided a peaceful political solution to the country's crisis. This book offers an answer to the question of why no renewed civil war occurred in Lebanon as well as to the larger question of why civil wars do - or do not - break out. The author accomplishes this by developing and presenting a model of informal elite agreement, which he terms consociational conflict.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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