Power-Sharing after Civil War

John Nagle is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast. Professor Nagle has authored and co-authored 6 books, more than 40 articles in leading international journals and several chapter in edited books. His research primarily focusses on violently divided societies, which he explores comparatively. Mary-Alice Clancy is a researcher in Northern Ireland. Educated in Boston and Belfast, Mary-Alice has written two books on Northern Ireland, and her research has been featured in the Guardian, Observer, Irish Independent, Al-Jazeera and BBC Radio 4. Mary-Alice has held academic positions at several UK universities, and has served as consultant for the Asia-Europe Foundation and the Linenhall Library in Belfast.

Introduction: Power-sharing after Civil War: Thirty Years since Lebanon’s Taif Agreement 1. Power-sharing after the Arab Spring? Insights from Lebanon’s Political Transition 2. Formal and Informal Consociational Institutions: A Comparison of the National Pact and the Taif Agreement in Lebanon 3. Taif and the Lebanese State: The Political Economy of a Very Sectarian Public Sector 4. The Causes, Nature, and Effect of the Current Crisis of Lebanese Capitalism 5. War Museums in Postwar Lebanon: Memory, Violence, and Performance 6. National versus Communal Memory in Lebanon 7. The Rise of the “Resistance Axis”: Hezbollah and the Legacy of the Taif Agreement