Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Thoughts on Lebanon’s Unity Government

July 18th, 2008 by Adam

With the recent forming of Lebanon’s unity government, an editorial in the Daily Star is skeptical of the recent commitment to unity amongst politicians that a month ago were in an intractable conflict. The editorial states that only when politicians undertake, “…an honest assessment of the country’s governance structure in an attempt to identify the characteristics that continually allow politics to degenerate into street warfare,” can their be a real reduction in tensions.


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