APRIL 2018
EDITORIAL
LEADERS
COVER STORY
A litmus test in Paris
All stakeholders know that reforms and investments are needed. Paris may be our last chance
Jeremy Arbid
SPECIAL REPORT
ECONOMICS & POLICY
Offshore petroleum investments made riskier
The maritime boundaries dispute’s effect on investors
Hassan Khalife
Energy and climate change
Lebanon’s intertwined challenges
Vahakn Kabakian and Jil Amine and Hassan Harajli
Lebanese in Brazil will not vote come May
Lebanese-Brazilians remain culturally and economically linked to the motherland, but politically are far removed
Peter Speetjens
Troubled and troublesome
Identities in the Middle East continue to haunt and raise questions—two books reviewed
Thomas Schellen and Riad Al-Khouri