The State of Palestine: A Critical Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780367596293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str.

Philip Leech

Opis

Based on extensive field research interviews and participant observation undertaken across several sites in Nablus and the surrounding area, it provides a bottom-up interpretation of the Palestinian Authority's agenda and challenges the popular interpretation that its governance represents the only realistic path to Palestinian independence. As

Spis treści

1. Introduction








2. The ‘State’ and Palestine











3. The Fragmentation of Palestine











4. Making Plans











5. Palestinian Authoritarianism











6. The ‘State of Palestine’











7. ‘Economic Peace’











8. Disaster, Capitalism and Palestine











9. Conclusions

O autorze

Philip Leech is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a Visiting Fellow at the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem. He has a PhD from Exeter University’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies and is the co-editor of Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East (2016).