The Maronite Cause Volume I

The Maronite Cause is a two-volume work about history, state failure, and survival under pressure.
Volume I traces the political and historical record of the Maronites from their early origins through the Ottoman era, to the birth of modern Lebanon, the civil war, and the long postwar decline. We explain a central conclusion: the Lebanese state, as it currently operates, no longer guarantees the survival or the future of Christians as a community.
This is not a nostalgic lament or a partisan narrative. It is a structured diagnosis of how sovereignty eroded, how institutions were captured or hollowed out, and how a community that once relied on geography, cohesion, and self-rule found itself exposed inside a system that cannot protect the continuity of its freedom.
Volume I establishes the evidentiary foundation of the Maronite Cause through a study of the historical, political, and strategic realities that explain why the old assumptions no longer hold.
Volume II continues where this volume ends: mapping today's existential threats, extracting lessons from small nations, and presenting a lawful roadmap for the self-determination of Christians in Lebanon.