The breakdown of the state in Lebanon, 1967-1976 /

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Author / Creator:El-Khazen, Farid.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2000.
Description:432 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4243018
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ISBN:0674081056
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-417) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Situating the Breakdown. 2. The Shortcomings of the Lebanese System in the Pre-War Period: The Academic Debate
  • Pt. II. The Political and Communal Scene in Pre-War Lebanon. 3. The Uneven Communal Development of Lebanese Society. 4. Varying Paths to Communal Za'ama: Maronite and Sunni. 5. Communal Disparities and State Policies. 6. The Age of Ideology and Mass Politics
  • Pt. III. The Lebanese State and the Arab State System. 7. State-Society Relations: Situating the Lebanese State. 8. The Lebanese State and the Arab State System; Varying Paths to Power. 9. The Porous Lebanese State and the Arab State System. 10. PLO Defiance of State Authority: Jordan Versus Lebanon
  • Pt. IV. The Post-1967 PLO and Lebanese Politics. 11. Palestinian Presence in Lebanon until 1968. 12. The Making of the Cairo Agreement. 13. The Limits to State Power: Chehabism and the PLO
  • Pt. V. The Political Process: Internal and External Dimensions, 1970-1974. 14. The Years of Uncertainty, 1970-72. 15. The Year of Living Dangerously, 1973. 16. The Aftershocks of the 1973 War and Lebanese Politics, 1974
  • Pt. VI. The Pre-War Scene. 17. The Internal Scene Prior to the Outbreak of War. 18. Power-Sharing: From Independence to the War. 19. Socio-Economic Factors and the War. 20. The Sidon Disturbances: Fishermen's Protest or a Palestinian Show of Force?
  • Pt. VII. Lebanon's Multifaceted War: 1975-76. 21. The 'Ayn al-Rummaneh Confrontation: The Inevitable Trigger. 22. The Breakdown of the Confessional Political Process. 23. Anarchy, Wartime Reform and Dialogue. 24. The Changing War: The Constitutional Document and its Aftermath. 25. The Palestinian-Syrian War. 26. Ending the War
  • Pt. VIII. The Inevitable Breakdown. 27. The PLO Armed Presence and its Impact on Lebanese Politics and Society. 28. Conflicting Images of the State and its Structural Dichotomy. 29. The Inevitable Confrontation: A State in Search of Stability, A Revolution in Search of a State. 30. War Continues: The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Arab 'Civil War'.