10 Ways to Save Lebanon

At the start of 2014, Lebanon faces two existential crises so severe that they threaten the very functioning of the state. The first is an onslaught against internal peace and the security of every citizen through terrorism and violence. The second is the growing risk of a socioeconomic meltdown under the weight of decades of ineffective politics, along with the pressures of an imported but inescapable refugee crisis. In this dire context, the political response has been to divide, rather than unite. Until last month, infighting saw the country go nearly a year without a government. Every single challenge the country faced was made worse by this collective failure of duty from the political class. The formation, then, of a new national unity government is to be applauded. Yet what matters now is whether this Cabinet is braver than its predecessors. Will they think first of the wellbeing of Lebanon