War Is Coming by Sami Hermez PAPERBACK 9780812224887

War Is ComingBetween Past and Future Violence in Lebanon\nAuthor(s): Sami Hermez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812224887, 978-0812224887\nSynopsis\nFrom 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a \""postwar\"" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of \""no victor, no vanquished\"" was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to consign the war to the past. However, since then, Lebanon has found itself still entangled in various forms of political violence, from car bombings and assassinations to additional outbreaks of armed combat.\n In War Is Coming, Sami Hermez argues that the country's political leaders have enabled the continuation of violence and examines how pe.