Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon Conflict, Cohesion and Confessio
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. Th
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Are John Knudsen • Tine Gade Editors
Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society
Editors Are John Knudsen Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) Bergen, Norway
ISBN 978-3-319-55166-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55167-8
Tine Gade Norwegian Institute of International Aff Oslo, Norway
ISBN 978-3-319-55167-8 (eBook)
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FOREWORD
This edited volume is an outcome of the comparative research project ‘Everyday Maneuvers: Military–Civilian Relations in Latin America and the Middle East’ (2013–2015), funded by a generous research grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and hosted by the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). Are John Knudsen (CMI) served as project leader for the Lebanon country-study, and with co-editor Tine Gade (NUPI) expanded the original case studies into a full book manuscript. We would like to thank Sarah Roughley, editor at Palgrave Macmillan, for stewarding the book project, anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions and Susan Høivik for her eminent copy-editing of the typescript. Please note that the views expressed in this volume are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the funding agency, interviewees or host institutions. Complementing monographs published in the aftermath of the Syrian troop withdrawal from Lebanon in mid-2005, this volume examines tenuous civil–military relations in Lebanon, a topic that has
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