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Is Lebanon’s Failed State About To Become The Plaything Of Foreign Powers?

by John C. Hulsman

In this paper we discuss:

1. The latest economic and political developments in Lebanon;
2. The consequences of the sovereign default on the Lebanese economy;
3. The influence and appetites of foreign powers on Lebanon;
4. How France is extending its influence on the region;
5. Why the US and Russia and less likely to intervene in this case; and
6. Why Lebanon risks becoming a new failed state on the shores of the Mediterranean sea.

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