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Hezbollah Lebanon - Hezbollah - Lebanese politics - Consociationalism - Arend Lijphart - Lebanese sectarianism - Swiss democracy - Switzerland - Belgium

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.

By Dr. Elie Elias
Hezbollah Lebanon - Lebanon political crisis - Hezbollah rhetoric - Lebanon sovereignty - Hezbollah disarmament

Hezbollah’s newly declared enemy

Hezbollah’s shifting rhetoric signals a potential internal confrontation in Lebanon, raising urgent questions about state authority and disarmament.

By The Beiruter