The Politics Of Sectarianism In Postwar Lebanon Bassel Salloukh by Bassel Salloukh, Rabie Barakat, Jinan S. Al-habbal, Lara W. Khattab, Shoghig Mikaelian 9780745334141, 9780745334134, 9781783713424, 9781783713448, 9781783713431, 0745334148, 074533413X, 1783713429, 1783713445 instant download after payment.

The Arab Spring unsettled regimes across North Africa and the Middle East, from Morocco to Oman. Lebanon, however, proved immune. How can that be explained? What features of Lebanese politics and governance could account for the system's ability to withstand the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring?
The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon builds on extensive field work to find the answers to those questions and more. Bassel Salloukh, Lebanon's leading political scientist, analyses the mix of institutional, clientelist, and discursive practices that sustain the sectarian nature of Lebanon, revealing an expanding sectarian web that occupies ever-more-substantial areas of everyday life in Lebanon. It also highlights the struggles waged by opponents of the system, including women, public sector employees, teachers, students, and NGO-based coalitions, and how their efforts often fail to bear fruit because of sabotage by various systematic forces.