The Unraveling of Lebanon’s Taif Agreement: Limits of Sect-Based Power Sharing
While
Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system is flawed and unraveling in
many ways, it has helped keep the country at peace and provides valuable
lessons for the region.
Since
the upheavals that began in 2011, states in the Middle East with
pluralistic, heterogeneous societies have collapsed, driving a renewed
interest in sectarian power-sharing systems as possible models for these
countries’ rehabilitation. Lebanon has just such a system in which
religious communities share power. Although it is flawed and unraveling
in many ways, it has helped keep the country at peace and provides
valuable lessons for the region.http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/05/16/unraveling-of-lebanon-s-taif-agreement-limits-of-sect-based-power-sharing/iy99?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRFelpUZzBaVEl6T0dWayIsInQiOiJPS0xxMCtZSnBGV0JIbkRXWFdsclwvQjhvXC9wRVo1cjEzaFNYMkNHWjNuT1RcL1c5cVdoZ0o2UkFzOEg3Rm56SXpcL1JlOHZyUXZKVHJYWjh5M1AxWXBcL05HOVAyTENpNnc1bDRMVE9SUDA1ekFnPSJ9
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