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Nach einer kurzen Darstellung des unspektakulär verlaufenen politischen Werdegangs von Elias Hrawi wird die jüngste innenpolitische Entwicklung (Zweiteilung der Regierungsautorität, Vermittlungsversuch der Arabischen Liga, Ta'if-Abkommen, Wahl und Ermordung von Präsident Mu'awwad), die zur Wahl Hrawis zum libanesischen Staatspräsidenten am 24. November 1989 führte, zusammengefaßt. Hrawi und der Machtkampf zwischen 'Aun und Geagea. (DÜI-Hns)

DURING THE DECADES THAT FOLLOWED THE NATIONAL PACT OF 1943 IT BECAME CLEAR-WITH THE INCREASE IN THE MUSLIM POPULATION AND IN MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL LEVELS- THAT THE CHRISTIAN PREDOMINANCE FAVORED BY THE NATIONAL PACT WAS OUT OF DATE. WHATEVER THE MARIONITES MAY AGREE TO DISCUSS ON THE ISSUE, THEIR WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT ACTUAL REVISION OF THE NATIONAL PACT IS LIKELY TO BE MOST LIMITED.

With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi'i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East. A hybrid of militia, political party, and social services and public works provider, the group is the most powerful player in Lebanon. Policymakers in the United States and Israel usually denounce Hezbollah as a dangerous terrorist organization and refuse to engage with it, yet even its adversaries need to contend with its durability and resilient popular support. Augustus Richard Norton's incisive account stands as the most lucid, informed, and balanced analysis of Hezbollah yet written—and this expanded and fully updated third edition features a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters largely devoted to the group's recent activities, including its involvement in Syria. Hezbollah is a work of perennial importance and remains essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Middle East.

The movement of displaced people, migrants and refugees has become increasingly important around the world, leading to a need for increased scrutiny of global responses and policies towards migration. This book focuses on the Middle East, where many nations are part of this global phenomenon as both home, transit and/or host country. Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East examines the patterns of legal, political and institutional responses to large-scale Syrian forced migration. It analyses the motivations behind neighbouring countries' policy responses, how their responses change over time and how they have an impact on regional and global cooperation. Looking in particular at Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, three of the world's top refugee hosting countries, this book explores how refugee governance differs across countries and why they diverge. To theorize variations, the book introduces multi-pattern and multi-stage refugee governance models as two complementary analytical frameworks. The book further argues that each of these three states' refugee responses is constructed based on three main factors: internal political interests, economic-development related concerns, and foreign policy objectives as well as interactions among them. The book's categorizations and models (on policy fields, actors, stages, patterns and driving forces) provide analytical tools to researchers for comparative analyses. Scholars and students of Comparative Politics, International Relations, Refugee Studies, Global Governance and Middle Eastern Studies will find this book a useful contribution to their fields.