Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 12/2008

PolicyWatch #1414: UN Resolution 1701: A View from Lebanon

Nicholas Blanford

October 2008

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

This PolicyWatch is the second in a three-part series examining the situation in Lebanon two years after the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. This series coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon on October 23, 1983, an attack that continues to inform U.S. policymaking in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East.