1. Introduction: Illusions of Financial Independence
2. The Long Monetary Mandate
3. Central Bank Reform: Ideas and Institutions
4. Barons of Banking: The Untouchables
5. Banque du Liban: A Façade of Economic Sovereignty:
6. Suits and Shadows: The Intra Affair
7. Financial Regime Change: The Last Refuge of Laissez-faire
8. Conclusion: Sovereign Debt, Sovereign Banks
Hicham Safieddine is Lecturer in the History of the Modern Middle East at King's College London.
"Banking on the State is a brilliant exploration of finance and banking as sites of state formation, sovereignty, regional alliances, and national subjectivities. By revealing the institutional origins of bank power in Lebanon, Hicham Safieddine rewrites the history of a misunderstood place. He challenges us to rethink sectarianism, exceptionalism, and civil strife."—Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara "Banking on the State makes a critical contribution to emerging research on Lebanon's political economy. Hicham Safieddine takes on critical questions and provides illuminating new insights, sure to help shift debates on Lebanon."—Bassam Haddad, George Mason University "A profoundly rich and highly readable account of Lebanon's financial foundations. Hicham Safieddine tells a riveting story of how Lebanon's banking system came to be the way it is—tracing the complex interplay of private finance and public policy, and the global (and regional) forces that so powerfully shaped the emergence of state institutions in Lebanon. A stunning book that upturns much of the conventional wisdom about Lebanese politics and economics, while also pushing new conceptual boundaries in how we think about the entwined histories of central banks, financial markets, and state sovereignty."—Adam Hanieh, author of Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Contemporary Political Economy of the Middle East "As some in Lebanon may prepare to celebrate the country's first century (1920–2020), this study of its financial foundations is not only a brilliant rewriting of history but also timely and prescient."—Clement M. Henry, Middle East Journal "Banking on the State is an innovative and groundbreaking contribution to the historiography of Lebanon. It is a treasure for researchers and students interested in the political, social, or economic history of Lebanon as well as financial history and post-colonial state building more broadly." –Ziad Abu-Rish, International Journal of Middle East Studies "While economic histories have explored the banking sector's centrality to Lebanon's political economy, scholars have not historicized the financial system's institutional foundations or analyzed bankers as a social group. In that light, Hicham Safieddine's groundbreaking monograph, Banking on the State, could not be more timely."—Oain Lawson, Arab Studies Quarterly
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