«The subject of that thesis will deal with Lebanon between both Israeli and Syrian withdrawals, on 2000 - 2005. Indeed, this recent period joins as one of the most critical in the contemporary history of Lebanon. The civil war started in April, 1975 is officially ended in October, 1990 with a " Syrian peace " compulsory for the Lebanese belligerent parties, supported by the Arab League and the international community. This peace period between 1990 and 2005, was on one hand a period of reconstruction and development of the Lebanon. But on the other hand, these fifteen years testify of a profound faintness and a dissatisfaction registered in an apparently peaceful global situation but in fact marked with deep political, social and community fragilities:Two major events - withdrawals: Israeli in 2000 and Syrian in 2005 come to upset this Lebanese status quo and activate the inevitable process of a new "democratization" of Lebanon of which the consequences do not stop feeling the effects and bouncing to this day. Between these two withdrawals, the third " event shock ", September 11th, 2001 seems with regard to certain Lebanese the perspective of a new American and European policy in the region.This period will be marked in Lebanon, by the events of August 2000, arbitrary arrests against the opponents of the proSyrian regime, the forced closure of the Lebanese anti Syrian television channel MTV, the virulent speeches of the Maronite prelates of the church and the patriarch of Lebanon against the regime in position, the new policy of the Druze leader Walid Joumblatt, the estrangement of the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri of the Syrian politics, and the beginning of the creation of a multidenominational opposition against the renewal of the proSyrian Lebanese president Emile Lahoud, the vote of the resolution 1559 in the United Nations Security Council, and finally on the " Lebanese September 11th " or the murder of Rafic Hariri, in February, 2005 and the " revolution of the Cedar ".
