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Lebanon

Profile last written 2026-08-08, latest processed report 2026-09-13. 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 force over the entire territory of the State Disarmament of non-state armed groups (including Hezbollah) in return for the staggered withdrawal of Israeli troops 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

The State has achieved its declared monopoly of force NICHT in full Hezbollah continues to control parts of the southern Beirut (Dahleh) and the Bekaa plains (according to Army statements, with a count since the ceasefire of November 2024, not since the Framework Agreement of 26.06.2026) and actively impedes the deployment of its own agreed troops according to the Lebanese Army statement.

Alliance pattern

The United States as a 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, expressly BEDINGT by the weakening of Hezbollah in the 2026 war. The Iran/Hezbollah confrontation demonstrates the government (President Aoun, PM Salam) consciously distancing itself from any involvement in the Iran conflict, and assesses Iran's involvement with its own peace diplomacy as a consequence of a clear breach of the treaty with Israel that Hizbollah has been pursuing since its inception in France (April 2026); according to a report by the United Nations Security Council on 11 March 1978 (UNSCR 2626), a policy of non-intervention with Israel has been in progress since the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Iran.

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: triggered as a spillover from the US-Iran war (not initiated by Lebanon), several thousand dead and over 1.6 million displaced (as of 15.05.2026, ~1/5 of the population)
  • Economic/financial collapse from 2019 according to the World Bank one of the worst economic depressions in the world 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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