Azerbaijan has leveraged the Baku Initiative Group to expand its influence over anti-French independence movements from the Pacific to the Sahel, creating a transnational network that pressures France at limited cost while reinforcing Baku’s geopolitical presence.
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Patriarch Elias Hoyek - Elias Peter Hoyek - Beatification - Maronite Church - Greater LebanonPatriarch Elias Hoyek: Honoring the father of Greater Lebanon
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Lebanon history curriculum - Lebanese history education - Unified history curriculum - Lebanon education reform - History textbookLebanon’s long struggle for a unified history
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UNIFIL - Southern Lebanon - European Union - EU security mission - Johann WadephulAfter UNIFIL, who will secure south Lebanon?
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Saudi Arabia - Mohammed bin Salman - Joseph Aoun - Saudi-Lebanese relations - Riyadh invitationAoun’s Riyadh invitation reinforces Lebanon-Saudi relations
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