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La société civile au Liban: ses forces et ses faiblesses

La société civile au Liban: ses forces et ses faiblesses This paper investigates the multiple faces of Lebanese civil society, particularly focusing on the evolutions of the recent years. It reconstructs the state of the art in this field in order to see if Lebanese civil society could represent an alternative to ‘communitarian society’ and to the government of the traditional elites. The analysis starts from some relevant questions: which are, today, the most active components of Lebanese civil society and to which extent are they able to trigger change? To what extent the participation of the associations in Lebanon could be considered a mean of democratizationor, at least, a mean of political change? Was it possible for the civil society’s Organisations crossing the border lines of communitarianism, to develop a critical mass for change? The domestic and regional evolutions show a very complicated panorama where it seems very difficult to get out of confessionalism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oriente Moderno Brill

La société civile au Liban: ses forces et ses faiblesses

Kiwan, Fadia
Oriente Moderno , Volume 94 (2): 285 – Nov 18, 2014
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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0030-5472
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2213-8617
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10.1163/22138617-12340059
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Abstract

This paper investigates the multiple faces of Lebanese civil society, particularly focusing on the evolutions of the recent years. It reconstructs the state of the art in this field in order to see if Lebanese civil society could represent an alternative to ‘communitarian society’ and to the government of the traditional elites. The analysis starts from some relevant questions: which are, today, the most active components of Lebanese civil society and to which extent are they able to trigger change? To what extent the participation of the associations in Lebanon could be considered a mean of democratizationor, at least, a mean of political change? Was it possible for the civil society’s Organisations crossing the border lines of communitarianism, to develop a critical mass for change? The domestic and regional evolutions show a very complicated panorama where it seems very difficult to get out of confessionalism.

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Oriente Moderno – Brill

Published: Nov 18, 2014

Keywords: Lebanon; Democratization; Confessionalism; Trade Unions; Traditional Elites; Religious Institutions

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