1. Systemic, National and Leadership Factors in the Bilateral R
... the U.S. interpretation of the Taif Accord, Syria and Lebanon were to have decided on the redeployment of Syrian forces from Beirut and other coastal areas of Lebanon by September 1992. Israeli occupation of Lebanon until May 2000, the breakdown of peace negotiations between Syria and Israel that same year, and intensifying Arab/Israeli tensions since the start of the ... leadership is not tightly controlled by a regime. "Lebanese political institutions often play a secondary role to highly confessionalized personality-based politics. Powerful families also still play an independent rol...
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