Lebanon protests risk destabilising fragile status quo
Without a quick solution to the waste management crisis, protests could escalate and even lead to the government's fall
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- Escalation potential
- State resilience factors
- War fatigue
- Elite detente
- Hezbollah's engagement in Syria
- Threats to status quo
- Popular mobilisation
- Iran-Saudi escalation
- Sunni extremists
- Fall of Assad
- Militarisation of Syrian refugees
- Outlook
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