Libanul: un fel de pasăre Phoenix a Orientului Mijlociu
Lebanon: the Phoenix Bird of the Middle East

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the past and current situation of this small republic, that these days lives on the brink of the civil war. The author of this article argues that Lebanon’s history had a cyclical development during the past century. Peace and war interweaved from its creation in the mid 1920s until present days. If the early political agreements and the balance of power between various religious groups were preserved due to the main characteristic of the Lebanese society, the sense of compromise, the recent war come as a direct result of the changes the entire Middle East suffered; but also because of the alteration of the fragile balance from the field of Lebanese domestic politics. The article describes important moments such as “The National Pact”, “The Taif Agreements”, but, nevertheless, the importance of moments like “The Civil War”, the special relations with Syria and different Palestinian groups within the historical development is clearly emphasized.

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