The limits of post-conflict arrangements. Sectarian feudalism and the implosion of the Lebanese political system Cover Image

Limitele aranjamentele post-conflict. Feudalizarea sectară și implozia sistemului politic libanez
The limits of post-conflict arrangements. Sectarian feudalism and the implosion of the Lebanese political system

Author(s): Iulian Chifu
Subject(s): Security and defense, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: INFOSFERA - Revista de studii de securitate si Informații pentru Apărare
Keywords: post-conflict reconstruction; weak state; failed state; sectarian monarchies; oligarchic sectarianism; longterm effects;

Summary/Abstract: Post-conflict arrangements are always welcomed since they provide solutions to very complicated problems by solving the divisions of power inside non-cohesive societies, harmed by ethnical, national and religious, even sectarian divisions. But those creative solutions as those involved in constructive ambiguities have side effects that produce in time new crises, without a possibility to be solved in the existing framework. Lebanon case could give us lessons learnt on how such arrangements that seem panacea are fighting back and weakening a society and a state. And a crisis of the kind Lebanon faces nowadays is exposing those shortcomings. Those experiences should require a more thorough analysis of the effects in time of the administrative, diplomatic and negotiations agreements, due to solve crisis.

  • Issue Year: XII/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 23-32
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian
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