Abstract EN:

How was political power utilized in Lebanon from 1943 through the outbreak of the civil war in 1975? What were the causes of both political and social disintegration? Our comprehensive study of Lebanese political power focuses on an analysis of the social structures and of those cultural and ideological conflicts, which literally tore the country apart. We have attempted to explain those distortions, which affected not only the nature of political power in the country, but also its ability to fulfil its very function. These are phenomenons which also brought on a general sense of pandemonium, thereby hampering activity in both the public and private sectors, the "friend-enemy" dialectic, as well as the quality of internal and relations. Based on our political and philosophical approach to the question, we have come up with a new concept of political power in Lebanon, which centres on a reconciliation between the norms of the modern state and the needs demands of the various community groups in Lebanon.