Palestinian politics after the Oslo Accords : resuming Arab Palestine

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Palestinian politics after the Oslo Accords : resuming Arab Palestine

Nathan J. Brown

University of California Press, c2003

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index

Contents of Works

  • Resuming Arab Palestine
  • The legal framework : disputing in, over, and outside courts
  • Constituting and reconstituting Palestine
  • Inventing a parliament
  • Civil society in theory and practice
  • Democracy, nationalism, and contesting the Palestinian curriculum

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780520237629

Description

This work gives an internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the Arab-Israeli conflict. It presents the meaning of state-building and self-reliance as Palestinians have understood them between 1993 and 2002.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Resuming Arab Palestine 2. The Legal Framework: Disputing in, over, and outside Courts 3. Constituting and Reconstituting Palestine 4. Inventing a Parliament 5. Civil Society in Theory and Practice 6. Democracy, Nationalism, and Contesting the Palestinian Curriculum 7. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780520241152

Description

This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Based on groundbreaking fieldwork, interviews with Palestinian leaders, and an extensive survey of Arabic-language writings and documents, Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords presents the meaning of state building and self-reliance as Palestinians themselves have understood them in the years between 1993 and 2002. Nathan J. Brown focuses his work on five areas: legal development, constitution drafting, the Palestinian Legislative Council, civil society, and the effort to write a new curriculum. His book shows how Palestinians have understood efforts at building institutions as acts of resumption rather than creation--with activists and leaders seeing themselves as recovering from an interrupted past, Palestinians seeking to rejoin the Arab world by building their new institutions on Arab models, and many Palestinian reformers taking the Oslo Accords as an occasion to resume normal political life. Providing a clear and urgently needed vantage point on most of the issues of Palestinian reform and governance that have emerged in recent policy debates--issues such as corruption, constitutionalism, democracy, and rule of law--Brown's book helps to put Palestinian aspirations and accomplishments in their proper context within a long and complex history and within the larger Arab world.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Resuming Arab Palestine 2. The Legal Framework: Disputing in, over, and outside Courts 3. Constituting and Reconstituting Palestine 4. Inventing a Parliament 5. Civil Society in Theory and Practice 6. Democracy, Nationalism, and Contesting the Palestinian Curriculum 7. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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