1st Edition

Power-Sharing after Civil War Thirty Years since Lebanon’s Taif Agreement

Edited By John Nagle, Mary-Alice Clancy Copyright 2022
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of the legacy of Lebanon’s peace agreement in the 30 years since it was signed. The chapters in this edited volume have been written by leading scholars and provide in-depth analyses of key issues in postwar Lebanon, including the performance of power-sharing, human rights, communal memory and sectarianism, conflict and peace, militias, political... Read more

Introduction: Power-sharing after Civil War: Thirty Years since Lebanon’s Taif Agreement

John Nagle and Mary-Alice Clancy

1. Power-sharing after the Arab Spring? Insights from Lebanon’s Political Transition

Tamirace Fakhoury

2. Formal and Informal Consociational Institutions: A Comparison of the National Pact and the Taif Agreement in Lebanon

Matthijs Bogaards

3. Taif and the Lebanese State: The Political Economy of a Very Sectarian Public Sector

Bassel F. Salloukh

4. The Causes, Nature, and Effect of the Current Crisis of Lebanese Capitalism

Hannes Baumann

5. War Museums in Postwar Lebanon: Memory, Violence, and Performance

Craig Larkin and Ella Parry-Davies

6. National versus Communal Memory in Lebanon

Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif and Paul Tabar

7. The Rise of the “Resistance Axis”: Hezbollah and the Legacy of the Taif Agreement

Samantha May

Biography

John Nagle is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast. Professor Nagle has authored and co-authored 6 books, more than 40 articles in leading international journals and several chapter in edited books. His research primarily focusses on violently divided societies, which he explores comparatively.  

Mary-Alice Clancy is a researcher in Northern Ireland. Educated in Boston and Belfast, Mary-Alice has written two books on Northern Ireland, and her research has been featured in the Guardian, Observer, Irish Independent, Al-Jazeera and BBC Radio 4. Mary-Alice has held academic positions at several UK universities, and has served as consultant for the Asia-Europe Foundation and the Linenhall Library in Belfast.