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Abstract:
 

Fifty years after the onset of the civil war, a prominent political scientist revisits the war to discuss some methodological questions and theoretical debates that agitated the academic community at the time.

Bio:
 

Elizabeth Picard studied sociology at the Sorbonne and modern and oriental Arabic at INALCO (Paris). She earned a PhD (1984) and Habilitation (1994) in political science from Sciences Po Paris. Emeritus researcher at the Institut de Recherches et d’Études sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (CNRS), she taught Middle East politics at Sciences Po Paris and Aix, and at Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. She lived and worked for several years in Syria and Lebanon, and directed the CERMOC in Beirut and Amman (1997–2000).

She has written extensively on security and identity politics in the Middle East, including The Lebanese Shî'a and Political Violence (Geneva, 1993); The Demobilization of the Lebanese Militias (Oxford, 1999); Lebanon: A Shattered Country (New York, 2002); “The Political Economy of Civil War in Lebanon,” in War, Institutions and Social Change in the Middle East, ed. S. Heydemann (Berkeley, 2000); Liban-Syrie, Intimes étrangers (Paris, 2016). She also edited Liban, une guerre de 33 jours (with F. Mermier, Paris, 2007) and Reconciliation, Reformand Resilience. Positive Peace for Lebanon (with A. Ramsbotham, London, 2012).

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