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What State for Lebanon? Revolutionaries, the State, and Foreign Powers in Lebanon’s Contemporary History

Wed, March 4, 2026
Dinner Program
James Stocker

James Stocker, associate professor of global affairs at Trinity Washington University, will discuss how the logics of state, revolution, and foreign intervention have played out in contemporary Lebanese history, from independence through the civil-war and post-civil war period to shed light on debates about the country’s future.

(Parents Dining Room)

James R. Stocker is associate professor of global affairs at Trinity Washington University. He is the author of Spheres of Intervention: US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976, which is being newly reissued in paperback in 2026. He has been a visiting researcher at Georgetown University and the American University of Beirut. He received his Ph.D .from the Graduate Institute of Geneva, where he received support from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is a RAND Next Generation Faculty Leader.

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