This article assesses how social movement continuity may vary in non-democratic and
repressive contexts. Using a single case study of Islamist networks in the northern Lebanese …

How can vulnerable states adjacent to countries embroiled in civil war avoid conflict
contagion? Jordan has all the classic attributes highlighted in the literature as creating …

166 Vulnerability a safe haven for malicious non-state armed actors–Hezbollah being the
most important among them–and Lebanon thus needs to be supported by external …

This dissertation examines how local government institutions reinforce or undermine the
stability of predatory democracies--regimes where free and fair elections coincide with high …

Abstract The Syrian Arab and Lebanese Republics are two neighboring states located in the
Middle Eastern subregions, traditionally called the Levant. The close neighborhood of both …

The article explores Lebanon's adoption of the Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE)
agenda in the second half of the 2010s and the consequences of the agenda's focus on …

Can official Islamic institutions play a role to curb Sunni jihadi violence? Most Arab
governments have granted a role to such institutions in recent years. Yet, the cases of …

Abstract This chapter analyses Lebanese Armed Forces'(LAF) attempts to deal with security
threats in the wake of the Syrian crisis and the implications for relations with Lebanon's …

Thinking through anti, post, and decolonial theories, this book examines, analyses, and
conceptualises' visibly Muslim'Lebanese women's lived experiences of discrimination …

Informed by the theorization of the modernity/(de) coloniality studies collective, this paper
thinks alongside hijabi women in Lebanon–a small Arab Mediterranean country–and their …