Acknowledgments . . vii
List of Abbreviations . . ix
1. Corruption: A Window into the State of Postwar Lebanon . . 1
2. Assessing Corruption . . 18
3. Public Institutions and Bureaucratic Organization . . 72
4. The Political Settlement of the Second Republic . . 122
5. The Politics of State-Building and Corruption . . 164
6. Corruption and the Primacy of Politics . . 223
Epilogue . . 242
References . . 251
Index . . 267