Le Comunità libanesi tra appartenenza etnica e confessionalismo

The research project developed within three years of the PhD program is a reflection on the consequences of, and possible countermeasures to, postmodernism in the study of a phenomenon particularly relevant in political geography, ethnic groups. For this reason the work has been divided into a methodological part and a second part, casting, dedicated to the study of the Lebanese reality.The traditional models of interpretation objectify political identity but are ineffective in the understanding of complex phenomena such as the Lebanese communitarianism. It was necessary, then, to integrate the classical definitions with a more direct reference to the policy, so as to ensure the coincidence of ethnicity that we want to study and hear a politician actually spread among the members.The confessional communities, lintel of Lebanese politics, are in several respects the ethnic phenomenon, typical of the West. Modernity, which many would never really caught on in the Near East, in reality it is introduced through religion, which is considered the basis of living together in a mirror image of what happens (or happened) in Europe based on the commonality of the "blood". If the West knows nations and ethnic groups, in the Near East are the confessions to play a similar role, namely to establish a relationship between the modern state and the population.And the sovereignity, understood as the modern relationship between space and power, which gives us the opportunity for a new way of studying the Near East, in order to understand different problems and propose new ways of peaceful coexistence.