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The motives for Syrian intervention in Lebanon were shaped by geopolitics, not domestic politics - primarily by the struggle to forestall Israeli intervention in Lebanon. Syria's apparent success in establishing hegemony was due to its neutralisation of external rivals, the exhaustion of Lebanese factions, its use of the rising Shi'i forces, and Syria's centrality to ending the strife. The Syrian-dominated order in Lebanon rests on its links to a variety of Lebanese forces, the division of power in the Lebanese government which allows Syria to play the role of arbiter, its near-monopoly of force and its marginalization of militant Maronite nationalists. Syria's role in Lebanon enables it to use the conflict in south Lebanon to exert pressure on Israel in the wider Syro-Israeli struggle over the Levant.