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Constitutional Patriotism in Lebanon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Maurus Reinkowski
Maurus Reinkowski*
Affiliation:
Orient-Institut of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft branch, Istanbul
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In this paper I will discuss the options of political identity the Lebanese have at their disposal against the background of the German experience. Germany and Lebanon, states at first glance completely different from each other, show some similarity in their historical experience. In the context of this comparison I will discuss constitutional patriotism, a political concept in circulation in Germany over the last fifteen years or so, and its potential application in the Lebanese case. Constitutional patriotism, unlike many other concepts originating in the West, has yet not entered the political vocabulary of the Middle East. The debate on democracy and the civil society is widespread in the whole of the Middle East, including Lebanon. Lebanon's political culture, polity and national identity, however, show some peculiar traits that might justify the introduction of the term constitutional patriotism into the Lebanese political debate.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 16 , Spring 1997 , pp. 63 - 85
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1997

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