Overview
First book to examine civil-military relations in post-Arab Spring Lebanon
Building on first-hand accounts, this title offers a new perspective on the Army’s security challenges
Explores a topic that has been rarely explored by researchers since the end of the civil war
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) cohesion and threatens its neutrality – its most valued assets in a divided society. The spill-over from the Syrian civil war and Hezbollah’s military engagement has magnified the security challenges facing the Army, making it a target. Massive foreign grants have sought to strengthen its military capability, stabilize the country and contain the Syria crisis. However, as this volume demonstrates, the real weakness of the LAF is not its lack of sophisticated armoury, but the fragile civil–military relations that compromise its fighting power, cripple its neutrality and expose it to accusations of partisanship and political bias. This testifies to both the importance of and the challenges facing multi-confessional armies in deeply divided countries.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tine Gade is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) 2016-2018. A political scientist, she works on Islamism and political leadership in Lebanon and Iraq.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon
Book Subtitle: Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society
Editors: Are John Knudsen, Tine Gade
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55167-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55166-1Published: 14 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85584-4Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55167-8Published: 31 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 155
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, Conflict Studies, Military and Defence Studies