This article conceptualizes the Lebanese sectarian power-sharing system as a resilient system. Utilizing the case of the Lebanese government’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, the article unpacks this notion of resilience through two mechanisms of learning and adaptation. The article contributes to the literature on power-sharing by focusing on policy-making during political deadlock and crisis. Anchored in empirical evidence, this article explains how the Lebanese government exhibited learning and adaptation by facilitating the efforts of donors, municipalities and ngos to respond to the evolving refugee crisis. In doing so, the deadlock that prevailed during that time-frame did not translate into policy inaction. While not considering that the Lebanese response was a rights-based approach to addressing the crisis, the article contends that mechanisms of learning and adaptation help reveal some form of response to this crisis. Understanding this response can help in future theorizing about the continuity of power-sharing systems.

本文将黎巴嫩宗派权力共享系统概念化为一种弹性系统。文章以黎巴嫩政府对叙利亚难民危机的应对为例，通过两种学习和适应机制来揭示这种抵御力的概念。本文着重于政治僵局和危机期间的决策，从而为权力共享的文献做出了贡献。在实证研究为基点，本文介绍了黎巴嫩政府表现出如何通过促进捐助者，市，努力学习和适应非政府组织应对不断发展的难民危机。这样一来，在该时间段内普遍存在的僵局并没有转化为对政策的不作为。尽管不认为黎巴嫩的对策是解决危机的基于权利的方法，但文章主张，学习和适应机制有助于揭示对危机的某种形式的对策。了解此响应可以帮助将来对功率共享系统的连续性进行理论化。