Lebanon: the struggle of a small country in a regional context.
From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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Date: 1/1/1999
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Author: Ellis, Kail C.
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Lebanon's involvement in regional crisis played a vital role in sparking the problems the country has confronted since its independence. The country was unable to detach itself from the chronic Palestinian-Israeli crisis nor find a way to effectively deal with the presence of Palestinian refugees. It was also forced to live with the escalating cycles of Palestinian-Israeli violence because of the uneasy balances within its own constitutional arrangement.
This observation concerned the ...
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