Disintegration of Social Structure into Pre-national Scales: Samples of Divided Society Type

Lebanonisation expresses a destabilizing process used to describe the societies, which have beendeeply divided on ethnic, religious, sectarian, linguistic and ideological grounds and which are open tothe intervention of big-imperialist forces and highly susceptible to civil war. The basic problem in Lebanonisationis the presence of a social-political structure built on an exclusive commitment dependingupon ethnic, religious, sectarian groups and sub-clusters and, in accord, the absence of an interiorizingbelonging to the secular-constitutional citizenship, which constitutes a national upper cluster.As shown in our examples, this process breaks the national structure into ethnic, religious,sectarian pieces and produces a political and governance model based on such representation. In thiscontext, in order to overcome the system crisis caused by “the sub-national scale”, “national-scale” maybe an important instrument for solution.