Previous studies on foreign policy have documented the proliferation of actors in addition to
those focusing on the role of identities in shaping preferences and behavior of actors. This …

This thesis explores the durability of elite domination in the three Lebanese municipalities of
Zahle, Baalbek, and Tripoli from 2010 to 2019 in the midst of the Syrian migration crisis. It …

This study examines Israeli perspectives on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL)'s performance between 1978-2017. The study is the first exploratory study of its …

Consociational democracy is a system of government outlined by Arend Lijphart in response
to the mystery of the stability of the democratic systems of several small Western-European …

Political instability has continued to plague Lebanon even after the conclusion of the civil
war in 1990. Lebanon is fractured along several ethno-religious and political lines; the result …

Abstract The Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly, on April, 2017, at George
Washington University, explained the dangers emanting from transnational organized crime …