Lebanon in a new regional order

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The Middle East and the Mediterranean are going through great changes that are redefining the region. The countries of the Southern shore of the Mediterranean (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya) are experiencing major transformation with the fall of the old military regimes and the attempts to establish new governance. The countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, and Lebanon are undergoing a change characterized by instability. In Iraq, administrative divisions on the basis of community sensitivities weaken the country’s security. The countries around the Red Sea, for their part, are experiencing a strong imbalance, whether it is Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, or Djibouti. Throughout the region, the US presidential elections were seen as a deadline. President Trump’s mandate was marked by a series of blows that began with a strengthening of the American alliance with Saudi Arabia (May 2017), then by the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel (December 2017), and then