Lebanon: Liberation, Independence, and Crisis
No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon. Continually for fifty years, it has seen crisis after crisis, often drawing in direct U.S. and international involvement. Most recently, Lebanon has been the scene of a civil war, wars with Israel, a popular mass movement that expelled Syrian occupation, terror, hostage-taking, assassination, and the struggle between allies of Iran and the West. This...
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For the first time since the 1980s, Lebanon is now constantly on the front page of the world's media. This book seeks to explain the contemporary situation in Lebanon and how it affects the region and the world.
Contributors viiIntroduction Barry Rubin 11 Reflections on Lebanon William Harris 92 What Makes Lebanon a Distinctive Country? Eli Fawaz 253 Lebanon's Militia Wars Tony Badran 354 Lebanon's Roller Coaster Ride William Harris 635 Demographic Dilemmas Mark Farha 836 Lebanon's Culture: Popular Music as a Case Study Charles Paul Freund 997 Lebanese Economy between Violence and Political Stalemate Nimrod Raphaeli 1098 Islamist Groups in Lebanon Gary C. Gambill 1319 Hizballah in Lebanon: Between Tehran and Beirut, between the Struggle with Israel, and the Struggle for Lebanon Eyal Zisser 15510 The Lebanese Shi'a as a Political Community Omri Nir 17711 Israel and Lebanon: Problematic Proximity Jonathan Spyer 19512 America and the Lebanon Issue David Schenker 213Index 239
