Lebanon Confronts Partition Fears: Has Consociationalism Benefitted Minorities?

Francisco Salvador Barroso Cortés and Joseph A. Kéchichian

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2018, vol. 5, issue 1, 5-29

Abstract: Lebanese consociationalism has been under stress due to serious internal and external pressures. Though Lebanese regional and global leaders continue to pay lip service to Lebanon’s unity and uphold putative commitments to its sovereignty and territorial integrity, partition to resolve internal crises remains on the table. After a long and still unsettled civil war, absolute internal discord among citizens and, increasingly, the uprisings throughout the region, partition was and is once again openly discussed by many even if most camouflage it under the decentralization, federalism, or con-federalism schemes. The article underlines the inherent vulnerabilities of the Lebanese state and analyzes its deep fault lines raising a serious question about the future integrity of Lebanon.

Keywords: Lebanon; consociationalism; minorities; Hizballah; constitutional crisis; partition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/2347798917744292

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