Organizations and Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Mystique and the Malaise
1. The Civilization(s) of Lebanon
2. Politics and Religion Lebanese-Style, 1920–75
3. Palestinians and the Beginning of War 1975
Part Two: Wars of all Kinds
4. Maronites: The War of the Brothers
5. Syria: The Occupation of Lebanon
6. Israel: Relationships and Betrayals
7. Shiites: An Islamic Revolution
Part Three: Death and Life
8. Political Disintegration and Hezbollah, 2000–14
9. Questions and Options
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names and Places
Mordechai Nisan taught Middle East studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a prolific writer on Zionism, Islam, and Arab history; minority peoples and pluralistic states; Lebanon, American foreign policy in the Middle East; and the intractability of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
-Fascinating research . . . . As Nisan analyzes so succinctly,
perhaps for the first time, the political breakdown of Lebanon in
1975 and the descent into war. . . . The content is well-balanced
and organized with the analysis of the main players, and the
bibliography is rich and instructive. . . . I highly recommend this
important book, which no doubt will be an important layer in the
study of this turbulent anarchic region of the Middle East.-
--David Bukay, University of Haifa, Israel -Few can write about
modern Lebanon with Mordechai Nisan's authority, sensitivity,
perspicacity, and literary charm. The Lebanese ought to blush that
it wasn't one of their own parsing Lebanon with the nuance,
erudition, and discernment of Politics and War in Lebanon. A book
of great relevance and profundity, Nisan's work is a compendium of
crucial importance to practitioners and students seeking to
understand the complexities of the Middle East (of which Lebanon is
a microcosmic representation) beyond the soothing jingles, the
normative platitudes, and the prevailing oversimplifications of
traditional literature. Lebanon's present and future remain
uncertain in Nisan's telling. But with his keen historian's eye,
his masterful storytelling, and his insider's intimacy, Lebanon's
history is safe in the hands of this honorary doyen of modern
Lebanese history.- --Franck Salameh, Boston College, Senior Editor
in Chief, The Levantine Review
"Fascinating research . . . . As Nisan analyzes so succinctly,
perhaps for the first time, the political breakdown of Lebanon in
1975 and the descent into war. . . . The content is well-balanced
and organized with the analysis of the main players, and the
bibliography is rich and instructive. . . . I highly recommend this
important book, which no doubt will be an important layer in the
study of this turbulent anarchic region of the Middle East."
--David Bukay, University of Haifa, Israel "Few can write about
modern Lebanon with Mordechai Nisan's authority, sensitivity,
perspicacity, and literary charm. The Lebanese ought to blush that
it wasn't one of their own parsing Lebanon with the nuance,
erudition, and discernment of Politics and War in Lebanon. A book
of great relevance and profundity, Nisan's work is a compendium of
crucial importance to practitioners and students seeking to
understand the complexities of the Middle East (of which Lebanon is
a microcosmic representation) beyond the soothing jingles, the
normative platitudes, and the prevailing oversimplifications of
traditional literature. Lebanon's present and future remain
uncertain in Nisan's telling. But with his keen historian's eye,
his masterful storytelling, and his insider's intimacy, Lebanon's
history is safe in the hands of this honorary doyen of modern
Lebanese history." --Franck Salameh, Boston College, Senior Editor
in Chief, The Levantine Review
"Fascinating research . . . . As Nisan analyzes so succinctly,
perhaps for the first time, the political breakdown of Lebanon in
1975 and the descent into war. . . . The content is well-balanced
and organized with the analysis of the main players, and the
bibliography is rich and instructive. . . . I highly recommend this
important book, which no doubt will be an important layer in the
study of this turbulent anarchic region of the Middle East."
--David Bukay, University of Haifa, Israel "Few can write about
modern Lebanon with Mordechai Nisan's authority, sensitivity,
perspicacity, and literary charm. The Lebanese ought to blush that
it wasn't one of their own parsing Lebanon with the nuance,
erudition, and discernment of Politics and War in Lebanon. A book
of great relevance and profundity, Nisan's work is a compendium of
crucial importance to practitioners and students seeking to
understand the complexities of the Middle East (of which Lebanon is
a microcosmic representation) beyond the soothing jingles, the
normative platitudes, and the prevailing oversimplifications of
traditional literature. Lebanon's present and future remain
uncertain in Nisan's telling. But with his keen historian's eye,
his masterful storytelling, and his insider's intimacy, Lebanon's
history is safe in the hands of this honorary doyen of modern
Lebanese history." --Franck Salameh, Boston College, Senior Editor
in Chief, The Levantine Review
"Mordechai Nisan's book Politics and War in Lebanon is a
fascinating research as much as a brilliant analysis of one of
almost unfamiliar states, though a much important one, Lebanon. . .
. Nisan is a famous researcher whose accurate and well-balanced
analysis of Lebanon gives him a special unique perspective in
elaborating Lebanon's reality. . . . As Nisan analyzes so
succinctly, perhaps for the first time, the political breakdown of
Lebanon in 1975, and the descent into war, was more a function of
external intruders than domestic acrimony. . . . The content is
well-balanced and organized with the analysis of the main players,
and the bibliography is rich and instructive. . . . I highly
recommend the publication of this book and commend Transaction
Publishers for the publication of this important book, which no
doubt will be an important layer in the study of this turbulent
anarchic region of the Middle East." --David Bukay, University of
Haifa, Israel "Few can write about modern Lebanon with Mordechai
Nisan's authority, sensitivity, perspicacity, and literary charm.
The Lebanese ought to blush that it wasn't one of their own parsing
Lebanon with the nuance, erudition, and discernment of Politics and
War in Lebanon. A book of great relevance and profundity, Nisan's
work is a compendium of crucial importance to practitioners and
students seeking to understand the complexities of the Middle East
(of which Lebanon is a microcosmic representation) beyond the
soothing jingles, the normative platitudes, and the prevailing
oversimplifications of traditional literature. Lebanon's present
and future remain uncertain in Nisan's telling. But with his keen
historian's eye, his masterful storytelling, and his insider's
intimacy, Lebanon's history is safe in the hands of this honorary
doyen of modern Lebanese history." --Franck Salameh, Boston
College, Senior Editor in Chief, The Levantine Review
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