The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus

... especially against the backdrop of the misfortune that has befallen the region as a whole. Even the most problematic countries – Syria, and even Libya and Yemen – have not experienced a complete of statehood. What is more, modern mechanisms (elections, ... ... also in Lebanon, which seems to transition endlessly from one crisis to the next. Despite this, the feeling of all-encompassing violence remains. The problem here is not just the negative information environment, which paints a picture of the Middle East as a region of out-and-out chaos, but also the fundamental change that has taken place in the social and political ...