Special Border Economic Zones: Concept, Dimensions, and Challenges (Part One)

Satellite map of Lebanon highlighted with its national flag, showing its strategic location along the Eastern Mediterranean

The political deviation or aberration represented by U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to establish an economic zone in southern Lebanon bears no resemblance to the concept of border economic zones—the subject of this article—neither in definition, objectives, nor any of their features and characteristics. The zone proposed by Trump is nothing but a disguised and […]