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What Belgium and Switzerland teach us about power sharing
Lebanon’s crisis is not simply a story of sectarianism, but of a power-sharing system that evolved without a strong sovereign state capable of managing division, a contrast sharply revealed when compared to the stable consociational models of Switzerland and Belgium.
