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Lebanon

Profile last written 2026-08-08, latest processed report 2026-10-25. A partial refresh updates this timestamp for the whole profile, so individual assessments may be older.

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Strategic interests

  • Complete restoration of state sovereignty and monopoly of power over the whole territory of the State Disarmament of non-state armed groups (including the Hezbollah) in return for staggered Israeli troop withdrawal from the south
  • Nachhaltige internationale, vor allem US-amerikanische Unterstützung/Rückendeckung für Wiederaufbau, Wirtschaftshilfe und diplomatischen Druck auf Israel
  • Restoring the financial viability of the State after the collapse of 2019 (Gap Law as an open legislative process, Stand 30.12.2025 Cabinet decision, signature and parliamentary debate pending at the time of the survey; IMF accompanying banking reform)

Threat posture

Secondary threat situation: (1) Israel continues attacks/occupation on Lebanese soil (according to Army figures with a count since the November 2024 ceasefire, not since the Framework Agreement of 26.06.2026) and actively impedes its own agreed troop deployment, according to Lebanish Army statement. (2) The State has not achieved its declared monopoly of force in full Hezbollah continues to control parts of southern Beirut (Dahieh) and the Bekaa Plain and rejects a nationwide disarmament; south of Litani, according to Army data from January 2026, the first phase of the ceasefire cycle (November 2024) was completed this stage is ahead of the framework agreement of 26.06.2026 and should not be confused with its pilot zone mechanism. As a marginal finding (NOT Lebanese State action, see demarcation note above): by 2026 non-state armed actors repeatedly attacked UNIFIL Blue Helmets on Lebanish territory against a threat directly contrary to the security sovereignty claimed by the State itself.

Alliance pattern

The United States as the central sponsor, mediator and guarantor of the framework agreement (monitoring of troop presence, reconstruction assistance, diplomatic pressure on Israel). Gulf states/Saudi Arabia are approaching cautiously again after years of alienation, explicitly BEDING by the weakening of Hezbollah in the 2026 war. To Iran/Hezbollah, the leadership (President Aoun, PM Salam) demonstrates a conscious distance from any involvement in the Iran conflict and considers Iran's involvement with its own peace diplomacy as a violation of sovereignty a clear break with Hezbollah's proximity to Tehran. France has been (as of April 2026) a historically tied troop participant in the UNIFIL mission, despite its own losses from Hezbollah attacks the UNILIL mandate runs until the end of 2026, according to a report dated 11.08.2026, with a follow-up mission expected to come with fewer troops. Aoun broke through direct Israeli talks with decades of Lebanese policy (the Israeli invasions since 1978 have shaped this policy 1978 marks the beginning of the invasions, not the year of the last direct contact).

Historical traumas

  • Bürgerkrieg 1975–1990 (120.000 Tote laut zitiertem Artikel; sektiererische Fragmentierung als bis heute prägendes Grundmuster)
  • Wiederkehrende israelische Invasionen/Besatzungen seit der Staatsgründung (1948, 1978, 1982 'Operation Peace for Galilee', 2006, 2024) — Zyklus aus Invasion, UN-vermittelter Waffenruhe und erneuter Eskalation
  • Beirut Port Explosion 4.8.2020 (~218 dead, thousands injured, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history) and the ongoing political blockade of legal enlightenment
  • War FebJune 2026: as a spillover from the US-Iran war (not initiated by Lebanon), several thousand dead and over 1.6 million dead. Displaced persons (as at 15.05.2026, ~1/5 of the population)
  • Economic/financial collapse from 2019 according to the World Bank one of the world's worst economic depressions since the 19th. Century, loss of almost the entire value of the national currency

Ideological boundaries

  • Konfessionelles Machtteilungssystem (Taif-Nachkriegsordnung) als verfassungsmäßige Grundordnung: Präsidentschaft reserviert für maronitische Christen, Ministerpräsidentschaft für sunnitische Muslime, Parlamentspräsidentschaft für schiitische Muslime — Amt-Verteilung nach Konfession ist keine Verhandlungsmasse, sondern Systemachse
  • Staatliches Gewaltmonopol als erklärtes, aber noch nicht erreichtes Staatsziel — explizit gegen jede parallele bewaffnete Macht gerichtet
  • National sovereignty as a near-sacred value: even interference by a close actor (Iran via Hezbollah) is considered by the government to be a violation of its own sovereignity (according to press analysis no directly cited public government statement)
  • Recent human rights liberalising movement: abolition of the death penalty (11.08.2026) first country in the Middle East/first Arab state with NOTE exception: the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc voted against, while the rest of the chamber voted majority (inner ideological break between the majority line and Hezbullah bloc)

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