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<p>As a result of being a leading world power within the community of nation states,  the United States is confronted with the weighty task of how best to employ its influence  in creating conditions for a sustainable, peaceful, and just international system of  interactions between nation states. Syria and Lebanon pose some of the most challenging  problems to policymakers working to achieve these conditions. Exploring the historical  origin of nationalism and sectarianism in Ottoman Greater Syria prior to the outbreak of  World War I in 1914, may offer important insights as to unique regional attitudes and  sensitivities with respect to democratic reform. This study seeks to demonstrate that  nationalists in Greater Syria within the context of a reforming Ottoman Empire prior to  World War I failed to form a cohesive political expression of intentions through united  action, thus allowing the formation of separate Lebanese and Syrian states. The legacy of  an incoherent national identity as a result of competing sectarian visions is an internally  divided Lebanese state that struggles to overcome its ineffectual democratic institutions  and a Syrian state encumbered by an entrenched authoritarian regime.
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Francioch, Gregory A.</div>
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