A01=Isaac E. Andakian
Author_Isaac E. Andakian
Category=JP
Category=NHTV
conflict
corruption
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fears
forthcoming
Hezbollah
hopes
Lebanon
sectarianism
social cohesion
uprising
Product details
- ISBN 9781666970586
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rising sectarian tensions, deepening poverty, and growing unemployment have been intertwined and compounded with the COVID-19 pandemic and corruption, to create a conducive environment for instability in Lebanon. Drawing on a survey-based research design, Isaac E. Andakian tests hopes and fears, social dominance orientation, and levels of social cohesion among various sectarian groups to gauge their responses to crises. Lebanon's Year of Crisis (2019-2020): Unity in Adversity explores how shared experiences of four great shocks—the 2019 financial crisis, the October 2019 uprising, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Beirut Port Explosion of August 4, 2020— shape respondents' sectarian, political, and demographic identities. Andakian looks to the future to assess whether conflict, or even the resumption of civil war, stemming from Hezbollah's constant threats to use its military capabilities domestically, can be anticipated.
Isaac E. Andakian is a Lebanese-American assistant professor of peace and justice studies at Kennesaw State University, USA.
