Sectarian Actors in Foreign Policy Making: 2006 Lebanese War Revisited

Abstract

This paper analyses the role of sub-state sectarian actors in foreign policy making in weakly established states by re-visiting the July War of 2006 in Lebanon. It mainly asks how sub-state sectarian actors behave as foreign policy actors in countries where society is divided along sectarian identities and how sectarian identities matter in terms of the definition of the self and the other and the ally and the enemy in weak states.

Keywords

Foreign Policy, Sectarian Identity, 2006 Lebanese War, Lebanon

Citation

Tınas, Murat and Tür, Özlem, “Sectarian Actors in Foreign Policy Making: 2006 Lebanese War Revisited”, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol. 15, No. 59, 2018, pp. 129- 143, DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.525073

Affiliations

• Murat TINAS, Assist. Prof. Dr., Institute of Security Sciences, Turkish National Police Academy
• Özlem TÜR, Prof. Dr., Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University