Tensions are rising between the United States and Iran, but war is still unlikely – especially as the coronavirus pandemic gives both countries increasingly dire domestic problems to manage. If the...
Lebanon needs early elections to regain legitimacyRecent US sanctions on Hezbollah in Lebanon – and the prospect of more to come – are only piling on problems for Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s Hezbollah-backed government. It has...
Lebanon will slide into violence unless the elite chooses political reformLebanon risks sliding into prolonged chaos and violent conflict unless the political elite manages to update the post-civil war political system based on sectarian power-sharing. At the end of the...