UID:
edocfu_9959237786702883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) :
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ISBN:
0-7914-9363-6
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1-4416-1199-1
Content:
"This book focuses on the emergence, decline, and reconstruction of the Lebanese Army in order to explain the causes for Lebanon's weakness, 'failure', and resuscitation in recent decades. It examines the Lebanese Army as a major arena for coexistence and conflict among the major sectors of Lebanese society (communities, large families, and geographical regions); the different roles that the army had played in and out of politics since independence; and its efforts to promote the process of state formation in Lebanon"--Page xi
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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An Integrative Approach to the Military in Divided Societies The Army and Intersectoral Relations in Lebanon The Army and State Formation in Lebanon The Army in Politics: From Mediator to Arbiter to Hodler of the Balance The Army In and Out of Politics: The Duality in Power and Its Opponents The Gathering Storm: Regional Tensions and Their Impact on Lebanon and Its Army The Army in the Civil War of 1975-90: Intervention and Paralysis The Army in the Throes of Reconstruction The Army Remains the Solution? The Taif Agreement and the End of the Civil Wa rResuscitation of the Army and the Restoration of State Authority in Lebanon From Syria's Withdrawal from Lebanon to the War between Israel and Hizbullah
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7914-9345-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780791493632
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