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Title

The breakdown of the state in Lebanon, 1967-1976 / Farid el Khazen.

Author

El-Khazen, Farid

Publication

London : I.B. Tauris, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Centre for Lebanese Studies (Great Britain)

Description

432 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This study argues that the Lebanese state broke down between 1967 and 1976 because of its vulnerability as a democratic state, faced with contentious situations directly linked to issues that constitute the core of official state ideology.

Subject

• 1946-1990
• Political stability > Lebanon
• Religion and state > Lebanon
• Power (Social sciences) > Lebanon
• Elite (Social sciences) > Lebanon > Political activity
• Civil society > Lebanon
• Palestinian Arabs > Lebanon > Political activity
• Lebanon > History > Civil War, 1975-1990
• Lebanon > Politics and government > 1946-1975

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Published in association with the Centre for Lebanese Studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-417) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. I. Introduction. p. 1.
• 1. Situating the Breakdown. p. 3.
• 2. Shortcomings of the Lebanese System in the Pre-War Period: The Academic Debate. p. 13.
• pt. II. Political and Communal Scene in Pre-War Lebanon. p. 29.
• 3. Uneven Communal Development of Lebanese Society. p. 31.
• 4. Varying Paths of Communal Za'ama: Maronite and Sunni. p. 50.
• 5. Communal Disparities and State Policies. p. 57.
• 6. Age of Ideology and Mass Politics. p. 73.
• pt. III. Lebanese State and the Arab State System. p. 87.
• 7. State-Society Relations: Situating the Lebanese State. p. 89.
• 8. Lebanese State and the Arab State System: Varying Paths to Power. p. 99.
• 9. Porous Lebanese State and the Arab State System. p. 110.
• 10. PLO Defiance of State Authority: Jordan Versus Lebanon. p. 123.
• pt. IV. Post-1967 PLO and Lebanese Politics. p. 129.
• 11. Palestinian Presence in Lebanon until 1968. p. 131.
• 12. Making of the Cairo Agreement. p. 140.
• 13. Limits to State Power: Chehabism and the PLO. p. 176.
• pt. V. Political Process: Internal and External Dimensions, 1970-1974. p. 185.
• 14. Years of Uncertainty, 1970-72. p. 187.
• 15. Year of Living Dangerously, 1973. p. 203.
• 16. Aftershocks of the 1973 War and Lebanese Politics, 1974. p. 218.
• pt. VI. Pre-War Scene. p. 235.
• 17. Internal Scene Prior to the Outbreak of War. p. 237.
• 18. Power-Sharing: From Independence to the War. p. 241.
• 19. Socio-Economic Factors and the War. p. 250.
• 20. Sidon Disturbances: Fisherman's Protest or a Palestinian Show of Force?. p. 267.
• pt. VII. Lebanon's Multifacted War: 1975-76. p. 283.
• 21. 'Ayn al-Rummaneh Confrontation: The Inevitable Trigger. p. 285.
• 22. Breakdown of the Confessional Political Process. p. 293.
• 23. Anarchy, Wartime Reform and Dialogue. p. 306.
• 24. Changing War: The Constitutional Document and its Aftermath. p. 323.
• 25. Palestinian-Syrian War. p. 339.
• 26. Ending the War. p. 352.
• pt. VIII. Inevitable Breakdown. p. 359.
• 27. PLO Armed Presence and its Impact on Lebanese Politics and Society. p. 361.
• 28. Conflicting Images of the State and its Structural Dichotomy. p. 379.
• 29. Inevitable Confrontation: A State in Search of Stability, A Revolution in Search of a State. p. 385.
• 30. War Continues: The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Arab 'Civil War'. p. 394.
• Index. p. 418.

ISBN

1860643205

OCLC

• 43407108
• SCSB-12362718

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library