Author: Michelle Pace
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138567399
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority's performative acts affect and shape the lives and subjective identities of those in its vicinity in the occupied West Bank. The nature of Palestinians' statelessness has to contend with the rituals of statecraft that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Palestinian functionaries engage in. These rituals are also economically maintained by an international donor community and are vehemently challenged by Palestinian activists, antagonistic to the prevalence of the statist agenda in Palestine. Conceptually, the understanding of the PA's 'theater of statecraft' is inspired by Judith Butler's conception of performativity as one that encompasses several repetitive and ritual performative acts. The authors explore what they refer to as the 'fuzzy state' (personified in the form and conduct of the PA) looks like for those living it, from the vantage point of PA institutions, NGOs, international representative offices, and activists. Methodologically, the book adopts an ethnographic approach, by way of interviews and observations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank makes an important and long-due intervention by integrating performance studies and politics to suggest an understanding of the theatrics of woeful statecraft in Palestine. The book is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the study of the state, International Relations and Politics, Palestine Studies, and the Middle East.
Author: Michelle Pace
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351341529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority’s performative acts affect and shape the lives and subjective identities of those in its vicinity in the occupied West Bank. The nature of Palestinians’ statelessness has to contend with the rituals of statecraft that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Palestinian functionaries engage in. These rituals are also economically maintained by an international donor community and are vehemently challenged by Palestinian activists, antagonistic to the prevalence of the statist agenda in Palestine. Conceptually, the understanding of the PA’s ‘theater of statecraft’ is inspired by Judith Butler’s conception of performativity as one that encompasses several repetitive and ritual performative acts. The authors explore what they refer to as the ‘fuzzy state' (personified in the form and conduct of the PA) looks like for those living it, from the vantage point of PA institutions, NGOs, international representative offices, and activists. Methodologically, the book adopts an ethnographic approach, by way of interviews and observations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank makes an important and long-due intervention by integrating performance studies and politics to suggest an understanding of the theatrics of woeful statecraft in Palestine. The book is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the study of the state, International Relations and Politics, Palestine Studies, and the Middle East.
Author: Nigel Parsons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135945233
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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This book explores the development of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from a liberation movement to a national authority, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Based on intensive fieldwork in the West Bank, Gaza and Cairo, Nigel Parsons analyzes Palestinian internal politics and their institutional-building by looking at the development of the PLO. Drawing on interviews with leading figures in the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, 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.
Author: Orhan Niksic
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464801967
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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This is the first report to systematically evaluate and quantify the economic potential of Area C, which constitutes approximately 61 percent of the West Bank. The report reveals that lifting the restrictions on economic activity in Area C could have a large positive impact on Palestinian GDP, public finances, and employment prospects. Among other things, access to economic activity in Area C is expected to be a key prerequisite for building a sustainable Palestinian economy. However, full potential of the Area C could be materialized only if other restrictions on free movement of goods, labor and capital are removed and the overall business environment in Palestinian territories has become more attractive. The economic significance of Area C lies in that it is the only contiguous territory in the West Bank, which renders it indispensable to connective infrastructure development across the West Bank, and a relative abundance of natural resources situated therein. Area C offers large potential for the development of several sectors of the Palestinian economy: agriculture, stone and mineral processing, cosmetics, construction, tourism, and telecommunications. The report shows that access to economic activity in Area C could increase the Palestinian GDP by as much as 35 percent, the majority of this impact would stem from agriculture and Dead Sea minerals processing industries, as well as the multiplier effect, which has been estimated at 1.5. Although the importance of building connective infrastructure through Area C is discussed in the report, the quantification of this impact is beyond the scope of this report. An increase in GDP of 35 percent, although thought to be a conservative estimate, would be expected to result in at least $800 million increase in tax revenues for the Palestinian authority, which would drastically reduce its dependence on donor aid for financing chronic budget deficits.
Author: Omar Shakir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detention of persons
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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"This report evaluates patterns of arrest and detention conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 25 years after the Oslo Accords granted Palestinians a degree of self-rule over these areas and more than a decade after Hamas seized effective control over the Gaza Strip. Human Rights Watch detailed more than two dozen cases of people detained for no clear reason beyond writing a critical article or Facebook post or belonging to the wrong student group or political movement."--Publisher website.
Author: Jim Zanotti
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437919790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Overview and Recent Developments; (3) Types of U.S. Bilateral Aid to the Palestinians: Project Assistance Through USAID; Types of Funding Programs; Vetting Require. and Procedures; Direct Assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA); U.S. Security Assistance to the PA; (4) U.S. Contributions to UNRWA; (5) The $900 Million U.S. Pledge; Hamas¿s Role in a ¿Unity Gov¿t.; International Pledges and the Gaza Reconstruction Effort; (6) Proposed FY 2010 Appropriations; (7) Factors in Determining Future Aid: Effectiveness of U.S. Assistance in Strengthening the PA in the West Bank; Economic Development and International Donor Assistance; Hamas and a ¿Unity Gov¿t.¿?; Questions Regarding a Two-State Solution. Charts and tables.
Author: Arnon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004491554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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This book offers the only comprehensive overview of the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Gaza. It focuses on the unique features of this unusual economy during the last thirty years. Under Israeli occupation, the Palestinian economy suffered from poorly developed domestic labor and capital markets, and considerable dependence on the highly developed Israeli economy for employment, trade and financial resources. The book analyses past trends, present conditions and alternative arrangements for the future. A comprehensive data set is used and, for the first time, the public is presented with a detailed picture of the Palestinian economy, with tables and graphs. The authors propose new institutional arrangements between the Palestinian and Israeli economies - an economic filters plan - which will promote neither total integration nor total separation. The book will be of great value to anyone interested in the political economy of the Middle East, the economics of occupation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Author: Nigel Craig Parsons
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415944403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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This volume is about the development of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from a liberation movement to a national authority, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Based on intensive fieldwork, this book analyses Palestinian internal politics and their institutional-building by looking at the development of the PLO. It has rare interviews with leading figures in the PLO and the PNA, the delegates to the negotiations with Israel, and the Palestinian political opposition. The author has spent more than a year in the Palestinian territories conducting his research and gathering data. It is, therefore, the latest account of the situation in the Middle East from the Palestinian political perspective.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Shipping list no.: 2011-0451-P ([pt. 1]), 2012-0097-P (pt. 2).
Author: Jim Zanotti
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437919421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Oslo-Era Security Assist.; Backslides and Delays in Reform: 2000-07; USSC Mission: 2007-2009; Future Prospects; (3) PA Security Org.; (4) How U.S. Efforts are Coordinated: U.S. Train. Assist. to PA Forces; Forces Being Trained; Trainee Recruit. and Vetting; U.S. Equip. and Facilities Assist.; (5) Deployment of U.S.-Sponsored, JIPTC-Trained PA Forces: Jenin, Hebron, Qalqilya, and Other Key Areas; During the Gaza Conflict; Assessing the Impact of U.S. Assist.; (6) Will the IDF Allow Greater Coord. and Freedom of Action?; USSC Role; Criminal Justice Sector Reform; (7) Expanding U.S. Mandate and/or Capabilities; Contingency Plans; Benchmarks and/or Periodic Reports/Accountings. Illustrations.
