Since last year, Lebanon has been under severe economic crisis topped by the collapse of the nation’s electric power grid, a catastrophic failure of the banking system and widespread poverty. The country is under a huge economic meltdown that has impacted the entire Lebanese population. Today SWANA collective member Ankine Antaram and guest Roupen Avsharian consider why Lebanon is politically unstable. Why has it not matured to a functioning stable democracy? Is Lebanon on the verge of a civil war? How did Lebanon get here?
Roupen Avsharian is a member of the National Security Committee of the Section on International Law of the American Bar Association and a member of the Middle East Studies Association. He is the author of On the Record: Armenian Deputies in the Lebanese Parliaments. Vol. I: 1920-1972 and Vol. II 1972-2017.
