Oren Barak is a Senior Lecturer at the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society (State University of New York Press, 2009).

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Accord Issue 24: Lebanon

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