{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Diplomat | ديبلومات","title":"S2 E3| Why Lebanon’s leadership can’t disarm Hezbollah without risking civil war","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/10b85b5e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1828,"description":"Lebanon has been called a failed state, a fragile state, even a cautionary tale,  but none of these labels capture what’s really happening.In this episode, Dania Arayssi, Senior Fellow at the New Lines Institute and a political scientist studying Lebanon’s public trust and remittance economy, joins Joe Kawly to unpack:• Why Lebanon’s leadership can’t disarm Hezbollah without risking civil war• How the U.S. and Israel’s pressure campaigns are reshaping Beirut’s politics• What “sovereignty” actually means in a system run by multiple powers• Why civil society may be the country’s only functioning institution• How foreign remittances are quietly reshaping political behaviorThis is not another segment about Lebanon’s collapse: it’s an explanation of why it hasn’t fallen apart completely.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/55o47bnmn9R6PDJwYdkb1iK1TFWX9pT-wpRIjM0q6BI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ODY4/ODZjN2ZkODk5NTIw/ZDgzMzE2ODg2MTBk/YjY1OS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}