SAY NO TO WAR IN LEBANON

Changing the Direction of Power Flow in Lebanon

Mission Statement

The Center for Democracy in Lebanon™ (CDL) supports, strengthens and enhances the aspiration of the Lebanese People to be governed by a secular and democratic government of their own.

The CDL Proposes a Model Electoral Law
For Lebanon

LebBlog:

Blog for Lebanon
by Elie D. Al-Chaer, PhD, JD.

Recent Article:

• Going… Going… Gone? Not Quite Yet!
  The Assad Regime on the Middle East Geopolitical Chessboard
   

Older Articles:

• Democracy in Lebanon: Lessons from the Lebanese Cuisine

• Uncivilized, Undemocratic and non-Peaceful

• ...for the children
  A monument of peace; an oasis of love; a garden of angels!
   

Don Quixote

Recent Article:

• The Lebanese Christians:
  Unsuspecting Victims of a Sunni Shiite Cold War in Lebanon (by Don Quixote)

Older Articles:

• Birth Pangs or Last Rites
  Democracy in Lebanon: Between the Hammer of Israel and the Anvil of Hezbollah

Ashmole

The Playboy of Metn Loses his Sex Appeal
Amin Gemayel: The Crushing End of a Career in Politics
 

Featured Articles

Debating Middle East policy on a presidential stage (by Elie D. Al-Chaer)

Beirut blast: intelligence cleaning or a new civil war? (by Elie D. Al-Chaer)

Will Assad outlast Obama in power?

(by Elie D. Al-Chaer)

The Palestinian state and Obama’s missed opportunity to lead (by Elie D. Al-Chaer)

Obama's Middle East speech: Good but  irrelevant (by Bilal Y. Saab)

The dynamics of effective corrupt leadership: Lessons from Rafik Hariri's political career in Lebanon (by Mark W. Neal and Richard Tansey)

Entre Yvan Kalyayev et Samir Kantar (by Pr. Antoine Courban) [ENGLISH]

The Dilemma of Democracy in Lebanon (by Bilal Y. Saab and Elie D. Al-Chaer) [Français]  [  عربي ]

Hariri’s Visit to Washington: Improper and Untimely (by Maher Itani)

International Articles/Reports on Lebanon

• Securing Lebanon from the threat of Salafist jihadism (Bilal Y. Saab and Magnus Ranstorp)

• Al-Qaeda’s terrorist threat to UNIFIL (Bilal Y. Saab and Magnus Ranstorp)

• Lebanon feels heat of Sunni-Shiite friction (Jeffrey Stinson)

• The Future of Democracy in Lebanon (Riad al-Khouri, UNISCI)

• Lebanon at a Tripwire (International Crisis Group) لبنان على حافة الهاوية

• The Redirection (Annals of National Security)

Freedom and Democracy

Articles formerly listed under this title can be found in the Editorials page.

• Tocqueville’s Lessons in Democracy (by Nicolas Tenzer)

• Iraq’s salvation lies in letting it break apart (by Peter Galbraith)

The New Middle East

Blood borders
How a better Middle East would look (by Ralph Peters)

When the Shiites Rise (by Vali Nasr)

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt)

UN Charter - Chapter VII

Democracy Forums:

Political:

Syria is the Arch Enemy of Lebanon 
Definition of Terrorism 
Lebanon, Arabs and Arabism