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2006.
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| Summary/Abstract |
After the assassination of Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005, Lebanese society took to the streets in the "Lebanese Spring" with a series of demands, including the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon and parliamentary elections by June of that year. All demands were met, but during the election campaign, the old dilemmas of the confessionalised state once again took the upper hand. Behind these dilemmas are various political crises revealing of structural problems. The country is still in the throes of an all-engulfing crisis. In order to contain it, the leaders of the main political forces convened a "conference of national dialogue" in March 2006 - the first example of inter-Lebanese consultation without foreign trusteeship since 1975.
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