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Activism, Change and Sectarianism in the Free Patriotic Movement in Lebanon

Helou, Joseph P. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024-04-25)

This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony. It sheds light ...
Fluid concepts and understandings redefined : States, porous borders and transnational militant actors in Syria

Helou, Joseph P. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024-04-25)

This chapter seeks to investigate the relationship between the competing forces of the Syrian state, radical Islamist groups and foreign military intervention in contributing to areas of limited statehood, which, in turn, ...
Inter-Communal Relations in the Context of a Sectarian Society: Communal Fear Spawns Everyday Practices and Coping Mechanisms among the Maronites of Lebanon

Helou, Joseph P.; Mollica, Marcello (2024-04-25)

This paper explores why the production of communal fear via demographic and political-economic factors can explain group behavior (here the Maronites of Lebanon) in diverse ethnic, religious and sectarian plural societies ...
Lebanon's Political Economy of Informality: Elites, Citizens and the State Shape Money(s) during the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Helou, Joseph P. (Nova Science Publishers, 2024-04-25)

This chapter contributes to the literature on divided societies by examining why Lebanon’s sovereign debt crisis of 2020, with a sectarian political order, elite power sharing arrangements and fragmented state institutions ...
Lost in the Transitions of Lebanon’s Second Republic: The Political Economy of (Un)governable Institutions, Practices and Crises

Helou, Joseph P. (2024-04-25)

This article employs Giddens’ theory of structuration to identify why the practices of powersharing among the political elite in the context of post-war settings can spawn inflection points that divert the political process ...
Party Practices in the Context of Lebanon’s Sectarian Political System: Explaining the Unachieved Goals of the Free Patriotic Movement

Helou, Joseph P. (2024-04-25)

This article explores why Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) shifted from opposing the dominant political practices in the country after the 1975-90 civil war – bargaining, power-sharing, narrow parochial discourse, ...
Policy overcomes confessional hurdles: a policy strategy tackles challenges in the segmented society and state of Lebanon

Helou, Joseph P. (2024-04-24)

I flesh out an analysis of how Lebanese Zu'ama or political elite manipulate various aspects of politics in Lebanon to maintain a firm grip of the confessional communities they represent. The political order resulting from ...
State collusion or erosion during a sovereign debt crisis: market dynamics spawn informal practices in Lebanon

Helou, Joseph P. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024-04-25)

This chapter contributes to an understanding of the role of Lebanese political elites in molding state institutions and distorting Lebanon’s public finances, which severely skew Lebanese citizens’ attitude toward informal ...

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