The politics of the Palestinian Authority : from Oslo to al-Aqsa / Nigel Parsons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, Nigel Craig, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government--1993-.

Palestinian Arabs.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993-.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Palestinian National Authority.

Physical Description:

xxx, 429 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

From Oslo to al-Aqsa

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

Juxtaposing the historical evolution of Palestinian nationalist institutions with socio-economic changes within Palestinian society, the book takes a critical approach to the Oslo accords and the PA. Based on extensive fieldwork in the West Bank, Gaza and Cairo it focuses on patterns of Palestinian class formation, institution building and rent-seeking in the context of accelerated Zionist settler-colonialism and the PA's crisis of legitimacy. Drawing on interviews with leading figures in the PLO and the PA, delegates to the negotiations with Israel, and the Palestinian political opposition, it is a timely account of the Israel/Palestine conflict from a Palestinian political perspective.

Contents:

Conceptualising Palestinian institutions: structure, agency, and transition

From PLO to PA and on toward statehood: Palestinian institutional development from 1964 to 2003

Authoritative leadership and the new national project: the politics of Palestinian diplomacy in Madrid, Washington, and Oslo

PLO-Israel agreements of the Oslo process

The bureaucracy and security apparatus of the national project

Socio-political foundations: civil society, the legislative council, and Fatah as party of state

Oslo implodes

After Arafat, on to al-Asqua: Palestinian institutions face the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-411) and index.

ISBN:

0415944406

OCLC:

55886395