Sovereignty, State Legitimacy and the Nation State : The Case of Lebanon

ISBN-13: 9783659952289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 144 str.

Abir A. Chaaban

Opis

This study addresses is the problem of the legitimacy of sovereignty within the international institutional legal system being a problem associated with the conceptual structure of sovereignty in the system. Working with Foucault, I conduct a micro analysis of relations of force around institutional transformations as effects of power. I scrutinize the function of discourse as a mechanism of popular recruitment and mobilization into conflict. The aim of this historical comparative analysis is to pinpoint tension by the antagonism employed in discourses of resistance taking the case of Lebanon and the historical cases of the English and the French Revolutions. I ask the question how the power of resistance consequently leads to a radical change in the normative institutional rules of recognition of the legitimacy sovereignty. This study was the primary research for a documentary video on the Lebanese civil conflict. The documentary is titled: Her Journey in the Cave: My Memory of the Past Part I." The documentary was previewed at the Lebanese American University, January 2014 as part of an event with the aim of creating awareness about peace education to Lebanese educators.

O autorze

I am a Lebanese-Canadian academic pursuing a PhD at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. My research works with the interaction between political communication, security and terrorism. The region I work with is the Levant, with a special focus on Lebanon and Syria.