Lebanon-Beirut: A country out of control, a surprising and difficult watch

Lebanon in regional geopolitics The country is in a region where geopolitical tensions are high (Caesar’s law, Syria’s conflict, Iran’s embargo, etc.). The scale of Lebanon’s internal crises is, as always, accentuated by regional geopolitical crises. The Covid-19 slowed down the Lebanese economy considerably in the same way as it slowed down the economies of the Middle East and the world in general. It also increased the already high rate of unemployment. Moreover, the policies of maximum pressure, applied by Donald Trump against Teheran, have accentuated the bottleneck. As for the Caesar Law against Syria, it has further reinforced Lebanon’s isolation….