Lebanon’s political scions step up | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
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Au Liban les fils s’apprêtent à ("démocratiquement") remplacer les pères
According to Imad Salamey, an associate professor of political science at the Lebanese American University, the whole process was indicative of the continuation of political feudalism in Lebanon, a tradition that has been entrenched for hundreds of years.
He attributed this phenomenon to “the general sense of insecurity in the country and sectarian or communal fear from others.”
“This happens typically when a community senses external threat from other communities. This becomes an option that maintains cohesion among the rank of the community and provides a way to avoid struggle over leadership ... it is the easy way out,” Salamey said.
He noted that the sectarian struggle in Lebanon often emerged as an existential struggle.
“The community feels that it’s going to be wiped out.”
Salamey said that had Lebanon not been a country “where there is communal struggle for power of sectarian orientation,” then political parties could easily modernize and afford leadership struggle.
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