Weak States, Borders and Humanitarian Interventions: The Case of Lebanon (Mobility & Politics)

By: Clothilde Salelles

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Synopsis: This book focuses on international border and humanitarian interventions in Lebanon, from the Syrian ‘refugee crisis’ to the current political, social and economic crisis. It sheds light on the centrality of the paradigm of state weakness in shaping those interventions; a paradigm relying on a set of simplistic assumptions that ‘pathologise’ the state by framing it as absent, afflicted by fragmentation and bad governance, while downplaying its political agency. It shows that those dominant narratives – promoting an essentialised vision of Lebanon and of its capacity limitations – are crucial to the legitimisation of international interventions. In addition, the author points to the prevalence of externalisation logics, discourses and frames: Lebanon has been constructed by the international community as a security problem, a ‘dangerized’ place prone to foreign interventions, embedded in a European agenda of externalisation of migratory controls.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031922695
Related ISBNs:: 9783031922688
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 09/27/25
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.