Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon

by Rola El-Husseini

Overview

Pax Syriana provides readers with a broad picture of what has changed, and what has failed to change, in the Lebanese political system after the end of the civil war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815651949
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	12/05/2012
Series:	Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Rola El-Husseini is assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M. Her articles have appeared in the Middle East Journal, Orient, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and Third World Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ryan Crocker ix

Acknowledgments xi

Note on Transliteration xiii

Introduction xv

1 The Lebanese Political System: The Elite Pacts of 1943 and 1989 1

2 Postwar Elite Interaction 23

3 Political Parties 38

4 State Elites and the Legacy of Corruption 86

5 Strategic Elites 122

6 Emerging Elites and the Absence of Women from Politics 160

7 Elite Attitudes on Syria and Sectarianism 187

Conclusion 214

Who's Who of Lebanese Politics 223

Lebanese Political Timeline (1989-2005) 231

Notes 233

Glossary of Arabic Terms 267

Bibliography 269

Index 291