Open Journal of Social Sciences

Volume 9, Issue 6 (June 2021)

ISSN Print: 2327-5952   ISSN Online: 2327-5960

Google-based Impact Factor: 1.63  Citations  

Political Theory of Societal Association and Nation-Building: Case of the Failed State of Lebanon

HTML  XML Download Download as PDF (Size: 6368KB)  PP. 333-384  
DOI: 10.4236/jss.2021.96025    568 Downloads   2,392 Views  Citations
Author(s)

ABSTRACT

Methodologically, the grounding of social science theory needs to use empirical evidence from histories of societies. This is the methodological connection of the disciplines of the social sciences to the discipline of history. In this fourth paper of a series on the failed state of Syria, we next focus on its neighbor of Lebanon, also a failed state. In this research, we further extend the theory of “political association” to include the concepts in “nation-building”as “top-down or bottom-up structures” and as “national leadership” or “coalition leadership”.

Share and Cite:

Betz, F. (2021) Political Theory of Societal Association and Nation-Building: Case of the Failed State of Lebanon. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9, 333-384. doi: 10.4236/jss.2021.96025.

Copyright © 2024 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.

Creative Commons License

This work and the related PDF file are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.