Regional Conflict and Regional Solutions: Lebanon

Mary Jane Deeb and Marius K. Deeb

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1991, vol. 518, issue 1, 82-94

Abstract: The Lebanese conflict has gone through a number of phases, each with its own rationale, incorporating different issues and at times different players. Throughout there were attempts on both the domestic and the external level to find a solution to what was plaguing the country and eroding its political and social institutions. This article examines three major attempts at resolving the Lebanese conflict when the representatives of the domestic factions sat together and came up with formulae that appeared to address everyone's concerns. The process of multilateral negotiations, the asymmetrical structures of those negotiations, the ripe moment for negotiating, the role of external mediators, and the whole issue of the valid spokesman are analyzed within a theoretical framework based on I. William Zartman's model of government-insurgency negotiations.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716291518001007

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