Abstract
Syria’s discomfort, which blends a sense of encirclement and of isolation, has not left Lebanon unaffected. Damascus is now clinging more jealously to a core possession in an otherwise depleted inventory of assets. Syria may instinctively recognise that its control of Lebanon is likely to prove more enduring if it takes on an outwardly friendlier and more distanced form. But its patience with the proprieties of the Lebanese political process has in practice been reduced by a more urgent sense of strategic squeeze.
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