TITLE:
Political Theory of Societal Association and Nation-Building: Case of the Failed State of Lebanon
AUTHORS:
Frederick Betz
KEYWORDS:
Political Theory, Political Leadership, Civilization, Failed States, Lebanon, Iran, Middle East, Arab Nationalism
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.6,
June
29,
2021
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”.