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Pax Syriana
Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon
Rola el-Husseini
Foreword by Ryan Crocker
Cloth $45.00s
| 978-0-8156-3304-4
| 2012
From the Foreword:
"I served twice in Lebanon, as political counselor at the American
Embassy from 1981 to 1984, and as an ambassador from 1990
to 1993. As a practitioner I would have given a great deal for a
comprehensive, well researched, and balanced guide to Lebanon’s
chaotic politics. Thanks to Rola el-Husseini, now we have it."—Ryan Crocker, former United States Ambassador to Lebanon and Syria
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Rola el-Husseini is Research Assistant Professor at the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, CUNY-Graduate Center. She has previously held positions at Texas A&M University and Yale University. Her publications
have appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the
Middle East, the Middle East Journal, and Third World Quarterly.
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The recent political history of Lebanon has been defined by the legacy of
war. In addition to repeated external invasions and the ongoing presence
of foreign troops of diverse nationalities, the Lebanese people have endured
the scars left by a bitterly contested civil war that began in the spring
of 1975 and continued unabated for the next fifteen years. While much has
been written about the tragedy of the civil war, el-Husseini’s Pax Syriana is
the first book focused on the evolution of the postwar political scene.
In a series of negotiations brokered by Saudi Arabia, under the
auspices of the larger international community, the civil war came to an
end with the signing of the Ta’if Agreement. This agreement ushered in
an era of Syrian control and rule by a disparate group of power elites.
El-Husseini provides an in-depth account of how the political elite left an
indelible mark on the Lebanese state and society. Through extensive field
work and firsthand interviews, el-Husseini offers an intimate portrait of
postwar Lebanon and shows how the Syrian influence brought a degree
of stability to this fragmented nation and yet simultaneously undermined
the development of a full constitutional democracy as Lebanon began to
acquire some of the authoritarian character of the Syrian regime.
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of the Middle East
6 x 9, 312 pages, notes, glossary,
timeline, appendix, bibliography, index
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