Warlord politics and economic clientelism in Lebanon
Ille, Sebastian and Mansour-Ille, Dina (2021) Warlord politics and economic clientelism in Lebanon. The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 16 (1).
Abstract
Since October 2019, Lebanon has been going through a deep economic and financial crisis that drove the country to a political meltdown. Facing a severe recession, high inflation and unemployment, nationwide protests in the aftermath of the Beirut explosion in August 2020 have led to the resignation of Hassan Diab’s cabinet – the second government to resign within the span of a few months. This article studies the interplay of the political, economic, and social factors that led to the current economic and political crisis. We show how warlord politics, and a corporate consociational system have misguided incentives and policies and consolidated a rentier economy that inevitably led to the current situation.
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