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Global Security Watch - Lebanon: A Reference Handbook
Global Security Watch Lebanon A Reference Handbook Author:David S. Sorenson Global Security Watch?Lebanon is the first volume to consider all factors?political, economic, religious, and actions by its neighbors?that have contributed to LebanonŐs violent past and that shape its current security status.In Global Security Watch?Lebanon, author David Sorenson explores LebanonŐs arcane?almost dysfunctional?poli... more »tical structure and economic system, as well as the complex religious makeup of a country that is home to Christians, Jews, and Arabs with no majority faith. Sorenson also looks at how the nation has often served as a focal point of diplomatic and military conflict for other nations, including Syria, Iran, and Israel, as well as how ill-informed American policies toward Lebanon have ultimately harmed American strategic interests in the Middle East.« less