S2 E3| Why Lebanon’s leadership can’t disarm Hezbollah without risking civil war
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Lebanon has been called a failed state, a fragile state, even a cautionary tale, but none of these labels capture what’s really happening.
In this episode, Dania Arayssi, Senior Fellow at the New Lines Institute and a political scientist studying Lebanon’s public trust and remittance economy, joins Joe Kawly to unpack:
• Why Lebanon’s leadership can’t disarm Hezbollah without risking civil war
• How the U.S. and Israel’s pressure campaigns are reshaping Beirut’s politics
• What “sovereignty” actually means in a system run by multiple powers
• Why civil society may be the country’s only functioning institution
• How foreign remittances are quietly reshaping political behavior
This is not another segment about Lebanon’s collapse: it’s an explanation of why it hasn’t fallen apart completely.
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