Download or read book Politics of Administrative Reform in Post War Lebanon written by Fares El Zein and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Administrative Reform in Post War Lebanon written by Josiane El Feghali and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Administrative Reform in Post War Lebanon written by Nisrine El Ghaziri and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, Lebanon, a small Eastern Mediterranean country, engaged in a comprehensive administrative reform with intellectual and financial support from major donors such as the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the European Union. Administrative reform aimed at laying the foundation for a modern government sector premised on the latest models of public management advocated by donors as international 'best practice'. Yet, achieving this objective proved to be a daunting, quasi impossible task in Lebanon's dilapidated and outdated post-war public service. This book investigates the dynamics of how the reform initiative unfolded and evolved, with emphasis on actual operations and multiple impacts over a decade. In doing so, it contributes to thinking on the reconstruction of effective public service systems in post-conflict and war- torn societies.
Download or read book Administrative Reform in Post war Lebanon written by Nisrine El Ghaziri and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Administrative Reform in Post war Lebanon written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Institutional Development Assistance in Postwar Lebanon written by Nisrine El Ghaziri and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines how postwar Lebanon is rebuilding its public administration. It adopts a development cooperation perspective, focusing on the particular role of the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR) in this connection. Ultimately, it identifies the administrative model to be achieved for modern Lebanon which is unfolding through the work of OMSAR. The methodology adopted consists of a content analysis of the relevant literature, documents, and reports, as well as of personal interviews with the leading staff at OMSAR. The main findings of this thesis indicate that since the end of hostilities in 1990, Lebanon has engaged itself in a challenging development process. The public administration constituted a major target of efforts on ground that no development is genuinely possible without a strengthened administration- The development process has gained particular momentum since the appointment of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in October 1992 whose credibility allowed him to also engage the international community in the reconstruction workshop. Institutional development constituted a focused target of external assistance. Under the leadership of Minister Anwar El Khali), the World Bank, UNDP, and other donors joined efforts to establish the Minister's office, the National Administrative Rehabilitation Program (NARP), and the Institutional Development (ID) Program, all of which converge in an encompassing strategy that outlines the administration of modernized Lebanon. A major conclusion of the thesis is that Lebanon's postwar development is taking place in a highly dynamic regional and global context the influences of which are impregnating the country via the involvement of the donor community. The implications for the administrative sector are reflected in its prospective inclination towards the 'new public sector management' promoted by the World Bank. This thesis was organized into six chapters. Chapter one is an introduction to the study. Chapter two establishes the analytical framework of the thesis. Chapter three applies the analytical framework to Lebanon. Chapter four examines the institutional development cooperation process taking place at OMSAR. Chapter five synthesizes the previous findings in a critical framework. Finally, chapter six concentrates on conclusions and recommendations.
Download or read book Civil Service Reforms in Lebanon written by Iskandar E. Bashir and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post conflict States written by Ruby Dagher and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders’ legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries. The author uses the Performance Legitimacy Theory of Transition framework to demonstrate the potential legitimacy paths that post-conflict countries can embark on and proposes a new approach for building state legitimacy in post-conflict countries. The author also introduces new indicators to measure performance legitimacy that also reflect its non-exclusive nature. Essential reading for students and researchers of Peace and Conflict Studies and especially of post-conflict development, peacebuilding, statebuilding, intervention, and democracy promotion. Also accessible to policy makers.
Download or read book Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development written by Wil Hout and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to understand how governance agendas are constructed at both the global and national levels and asks what factors define success and failure in their implementation. It features case studies drawn from Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Download or read book Spoils of Truce written by Reinoud Leenders and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spoils of Truce, Reinoud Leenders documents the extensive corruption that accompanied the reconstruction of Lebanon after the end of a decade and a half of civil war. With the signing of the Ta’if peace accord in 1989, the rebuilding of the country’s shattered physical infrastructure and the establishment of a functioning state apparatus became critical demands. Despite the urgent needs of its citizens, however, graft was rampant. Leenders describes the extent and nature of this corruption in key sectors of the Lebanese economy and government, including transportation, health care, energy, natural resources, construction, and social assistance programs. Exploring in detail how corruption implicated senior policymakers and high-ranking public servants, Leenders offers a clear-eyed perspective on state institutions in the developing world. He also addresses the overriding role of the Syrian leadership’s interests in Lebanon and in particular its manipulation of the country’s internal differences. His qualitative and disaggregated approach to dissecting the politics of creating and reshaping state institutions complements the more typical quantitative methods used in the study of corruption. More broadly, Spoils of Truce will be uncomfortable reading for those who insist that power-sharing strategies in conflict management and resolution provide some sort of panacea for divided societies hoping to recover from armed conflict.
Download or read book Democratic Transitions in the Arab World written by Ibrahim Elbadawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-country examination of authoritarianism and democracy in North Africa and the Middle East.
Download or read book Post Conflict Transition in Lebanon written by Lyna Comaty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing one of the most pressing issues of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) that is still unresolved almost 30 years later, this book adopts a political, sociological, and anthropological approach to look at periods of transition from conflict to peace in Lebanon. Inducing a set of questions about the social and political system, the post-conflict state has been pushing for a politics of amnesty and amnesia. The case study delves into the notion of transition from conflict to peace in Lebanon by looking in the case of the estimated 17,000 people who disappeared during the Civil War. Using the concept of liminality to understand the evolution of the issue over the years, the book follows the trajectory of the relatives of the missing, who have formed a communitas – a group sharing strong feelings of comradeship and brother/sisterhood by virtue of finding themselves in the same situation. Offering a novel way of looking at transitions, the book is a significant contribution to peace studies, and it will be an interest of students and academics working in human rights, political science, and the Middle East disciplines.
Download or read book We Were Caught Unprepared written by Matt M. Matthews and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The fact that the outcome of the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War was, at best, a stalemate for Israel has confounded military analysts. Long considered the most professional and powerful army in the Middle East, with a history of impressive military victories against its enemies, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) emerged from the campaign with its enemies undefeated and its prestige tarnished. This historical analysis of the war includes an examination of IDF and Hezbollah doctrine prior to the war, as well as an overview of the operational and tactical problems encountered by the IDF during the war. The IDF ground forces were tactically unprepared and untrained to fight against a determined Hezbollah force. ¿An insightful, comprehensive examination of the war.¿ Illustrations.
Download or read book Post conflict Reconstruction and Local Government written by Paul Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of local government and post-conflict reconstruction sits at the intersection of several interrelated research areas, notably conflict/peacebuilding, governance, and political economy. This volume addresses a gap in the academic literature: whilst decentralisation is frequently included in peace agreements, the actual scope and role of local government is far less frequently discussed. This gap remains despite a considerable literature on local government in developing countries more generally, particularly with regard to decentralisation; but also, despite a considerable and growing literature on post-conflict reconstruction. This volume provides a mixture of case study, cross-case studies, practitioner reflection, and conceptual material on the function of local government in the context of decentralisation in post-conflict countries, from both academics and policy-makers. This collection of in-depth single- and multi-country case study analysis is complemented by practitioner reflections and framed within the 2030 Agenda building on the New Urban Agenda, and particularly the Sustainable Development Goal 16 to ‘promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.’ The chapters in this book were originally published in the online journal Third World Thematics.
Download or read book The World Bank and Governance written by Diane L. Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade. The World Bank is viewed as one of the most powerful international organizations of our time. The authors critically analyze the influence of the institution’s policy and engagement during the past decade in a variety of issue areas, including human rights, domestic reform, and the environment. The World Bank and Governance delves into the bowels of the World Bank, exploring its organizational structure, professional culture and bureaucratic procedures, illustrating how these shape its engagement with an increasingly complex, diverse and challenging operational environment. The book includes chapters on two under-researched divisions of the World Bank: the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Several illuminating country studies are also included, analyzing the World Bank's activities in Argentina, Bolivia, Lebanon, Hungary and Vietnam. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, development, politics and economics.
Download or read book The Liberal Peace and Post War Reconstruction written by Roger MacGinty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical and comparative book is comprised of arguments for and against the dominant western style of peace interventions and post-war reconstruction that has been applied around the world. It examines and assesses the nature of the peace that these have achieved or offer for the future.
Download or read book Development Civil Society and Faith Based Organizations written by G. Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting democracy. It argues that greater engagement with faith communities and organizations is needed, and questions traditional secularism that has underpinned development policy and practice in the North.
