Peter Seeberg
Nation, stat og religion i Libanon efter borgerkrigen

Engelsk summary:

The feeling of being part of the Lebanese nation grew stronger during the in many ways devastating civil war, which lasted for 15 years. This is claimed by the German Lebanon-expert Theodor Hanf. The article discusses this assumption and asserts that this is no longer the case. The lasting domination by the Syrians, the ambitious, yet questionable reconstruction process, the economic problems of the Lebanese state and the marked poverty among the huge Shia-minority are all factors, which have made it impossible to create a national consensus in postwar Lebanon. This has led to a retribalization of Lebanese society which in stead of progress seems to bring forward a strong reassertion of religious and confessional consciousness and has at least for a foreseeable future made it impossible to deal with the severe structural problems of the economy and the absurdities of Lebanese political reality. The killing of Rafik Hariri February 14^th 2005 and the withdraval of the Syrian troops in spring 2005 has not eased these tensions.