Is the systemic crisis threatening to disintegrate the Lebanese state, and already paralyzing its institutions, simply a replay of previous crises that have punctuated, more or less regularly, the country's contemporary history? Without denying the regularities that can be observed by adopting a very high (and - we believe - unproductive) level of abstraction, we believe that a singular approach to the current crisis would be more appropriate to identify its actual mechanisms and attempt to measure its present and, above all, foreseeable impact on the country and its political system.
Indeed, the configuration of each Lebanese crisis incorporates (at the very least) the "work" of the previous conflict and its aftermath. In other words, the 1975-1990 war did take place, and the post-war period, which spanned a decade and a half, has also left its mark on the present situation, which, having assimilated both, cannot be repeated. By attempting to go as far as possible in dismantling the famous Lebanese aporia of "Us" and "Others", we will attempt to question the new intra- and inter-community situation resulting from developments over the last three or four decades, the potential vacancy of the political arbitration function, managed and, at the same time, concealed by the Syrian guardian, the unprecedented conjunction of a crystallizing Lebanese Shi'ism and the Iranian-Syrian alliance - a conjunction that redefines the strategic perspectives of the above-mentioned situation, and so on.