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" Kings, Queens, Rooks and Pawns: Deciphering Lebanon's Political Chessboard "
Eric James Bordenkircher
Spiegel, Steven; Binder, Leonard
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803373
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TL48157
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1666860858; 3685848
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Kemerli, Pinar
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Kings, Queens, Rooks and Pawns: Deciphering Lebanon's Political Chessboard\ Eric James BordenkircherSpiegel, Steven; Binder, Leonard
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University of California, Los Angeles
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Islamic Studies
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2015
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336
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Committee members: Dekmejian, Richard; Poonawala, Ismail
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-62389-5
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| Abstract
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This dissertation analyzes a fundamental and ubiquitous facet of Lebanese politics that has been relatively absent from scholarship—the strategic interaction that occurs amongst and between domestic and regional/extra-regional actors. In Lebanon's complicated political landscape which individuals, political parties or countries are necessary for a political agreement, what makes these actors necessary for an agreement and how do they arrive at an agreement? To answer these questions and make sense of Lebanon's intricate political space, my work employs an innovative framework of analysis, an adaptation of George Tsebelis's veto players approach. Tsebelis's framework provides an ideal way to trace and interpret the agreement-making process because it allows one to incorporate domestic and international politics. The veto players framework is utilized to examine four instances of agreement in Lebanese history that incorporated external actors: 1) the transfer of the presidency from Camille Shamun to Fuad Shihab in 1958; 2) the Cairo Agreement of 1969; 3) the Taif Accord; and 4) the Doha Agreement in 2008.
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Middle Eastern Studies; Peace Studies; International Relations
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Social sciences;Arab world;Failed states;Intervention;Lebanon;Religious/ethnic conflict
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Spiegel, Steven; Binder, Leonard
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Islamic StudiesUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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