Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/51694
Title: Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World
Other Titles: Lebanon and Algeria
Authors: Associate Professor Syed Farid Alatas
Professor Howard V. Brasted
MacQueen, Benjamin
Keywords: Lebanon and Algeria
Issue Date: 2009
Publisher: Melbourne University
Description: Research for this project began as an examination of the dynamics of civil war and conflict resolution amongst the community of Arab states, specifically Lebanon and Algeria. In an effort to explore the various factors affecting the form and the success and/or failure of resolution processes, it was evident that a variety of structural and material forces had come to bear on the timing, shape and outcome of the agreements. For instance, in their investigation of the 1975– 1990 Lebanese civil war some analysts have provided persuasive arguments as to the influence of structural forces, namely the distribution of political power in the Lebanese political system as a source of the conflict. The nature of the Lebanese political system as a form of compromise between the country’s main confessional groups made it vulnerable, as it could not mitigate the competing claims to political authority in the country leading Lebanon into a ‘a zero-sum, distributive conflict over the nature of the stat
URI: http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51694
ISBN: 9780522856248
Appears in Collections:African Studies

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