When Crisis Promotes Proximity Jonathan Kriener Lebanese University clientelism social control Sectarianism higher education During the Lebanese war of 1975 to 1990, the only public university of Lebanon branched out into more than 40 locations all over the country. While this deed reflects the inner division of Lebanon, it also moved the University nearer to the country’s geographical and social peripheries. Employing field research, newspaper articles, and grey literature this article gauges the effects of fragmentation in terms of the dynamics of social control that resulted from it. It shows that by the perspective of social control, sectarianism and clientelism can be observed as related with, but distinct from one another. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2019 2019-12-22 2020-03-11 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2019-235-80910 eng 2714728-9 13 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/8091/8044 10.17192/meta.2019.13.8091 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2019/235/8091 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0