Beverley Milton‐edward
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverley Milton‐edward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverley |
| FAMILY NAME | Milton‐edward |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARD B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4438-8946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Protest Wave Palestine
The attack of October 7 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian Armed Groups ( pag ) on Israel and the retaliatory war on Palestinians since then have led to a massive wave of protest across the world. These protests have been variously received by governments and local authorities, particularly in Europe and North America, and by Israel’s allies as threats – even to national security – in and of themselves. These governments, authorities, along with…
Small States Big Conflicts
The foreign policies of small states in the GCC are increasingly linked to key roles in conflict resolution processes regionally and beyond. By emerging as mediators the leadership of such states also powerfully address and remain relevant to the wider diplomatic processes that pushes them close to forms of indispensability. In so doing such countries strengthen bilateral relationships with bigger states that in reality are fundamental to meeting…
The survival of small states in the Gulf region
The Blockade on Qatar
Current tensions in the Gulf region highlight the persistence of crises and conflict. A number of states within the area now regularly engage in interventionist actions that challenge previously held norms of sovereignty and non-intervention. Fragmentation characterises what were once considered fairly robust structures of unity and enduring regional organisation. Theoretical norms that presuppose non-intervention are tested by new forms of coerc…
Securitizing charity
In this article, the argument is offered that securitization of the Palestinian zakat committees became a weapon in the counter-terror arsenal of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) as each sought to exert hegemony over what became framed as a ‘common enemy.’ The article extends the debate as it relates to the increasingly hostile response by state actors and the international community to the work of non- and semi-governmental Muslim chari…
The ‘Warriors Break’
Ceasefires are a difficult thing to achieve. No more so than in the conflicts of the Middle East. Without ceasefires civilians caught in wars remain vulnerable. As recent events in the Middle East have demonstrated though ceasefires are difficult to negotiate and are far more likely to breakdown than succeed. When it comes to the notion of negotiating ceasefires with Islamist groups, in particular, there is a widely held belief in Western policy-…
The Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood is the most significant and enduring Sunni Islamist organization of the contemporary era. Its roots lie in the Middle East but it has grown into both a local and global movement, with its well-placed branches reacting effectively to take the opportunities for power and electoral competition offered by the Arab Spring. Regarded by some as a force of moderation among Islamists, and by others as a façade hiding a terrorist fun…
Forgoing primacy
Since the Oslo Accords were signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in September 1993, the international community has supported civil policing programmes. It has done so as part of its development commitments to Palestinian state-building. Such programmes were, until the outbreak of the second Intifada in 2000, largely regarded as successful in terms of supporting the establishment of a Palestinian civil police (P…
Islamist Versus Islamist
Islam's diversity is a direct result of centuries of schism and factionalism, and presents a challenge to the original spirit of unity as envisaged by its founder, the Prophet Mohammed. Rivalry within Islam undermines the precedent notion of unity through communal belonging (tawhid and ummah). Yet in the twenty-first century this diversity is ignored, and political Islam is represented as being more of a monolith than a spectrum of ideas and aspi…
Hamas in the Palestinian Territories
Hamas and the Arab Spring
Missing the 'devils' we knew? Israel and political Islam amid the Arab Awakening
While the immediate outcome of the Iraq War of 2003 was certainly to Israel's strategic advantage, the more immediate and indeed visceral challenge of the ongoing Al-Aqsa intifada has dominated the security horizons of most Israelis. The legacy of this conflict, with its strong Islamist overtones, has clearly had a bearing on how the Arab Awakening has come to be perceived by Israel. Taking this experience as its starting point, this article exam…
Revolt and revolution
The outbreak of revolt and revolution in the Middle East has given rise to a re-consideration of threat and security analyses as they pertain to the region and beyond. The resilience of some authoritarian regimes and the rapid collapse of others signal a significant transition within the region to which jihadi Islamist groups form one part of a powerful matrix. This article analyses the part and place of jihadi Islamism and Islamisms 1 1. Islamis…
Jordan
Created as a mechanism for maintaining British influence through a local patron, Jordan’s future never looked certain. Nevertheless, under the leadership of the Hashemite monarchy led by Abdullah and then his grandson Hussein, the Kingdom of Jordan became a permanent feature on the map of the modern Middle East. Under the rule of King Abdullah II, Jordan has remained an influential regional player in the Middle East Peace Process, its strategic p…
Order Without Law? An Anatomy of Hamas Security
In the struggle to assert and consolidate its power, the Hamas movement of the Palestinian territories has devised several strategies for control. In recognition that control of security remains a key goal for any power-seeker, following its election victory in January 2006, Hamas entered into a fierce and ultimately successful conflict with Fatah for control of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Interior and Palestinian Security Forces (PSF) …
The Ascendance of Political Islam
This article outlines the means by which the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas has developed and implemented a consolidation of power strategy that is inexorably driving it to a state of increasingly authoritarian control in the Gaza Strip. It discusses the factors that have driven Hamas in terms of power seeking as primordial to all radical Islamist movements or as a result of or response to other factors outside its control. The article highli…
Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945
This third edition of Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 analyzes the nature of conflict in the Middle East, with its racial, ethnic, political, cultural, religious and economic factors. Throughout the book Peter Hinchcliffe and Beverley Milton-Edwards put the main conflicts into their wider context, with thematic debates on issues such as the emergence of radical Islam, the resolution of conflicts, diplomacy and peace-making, and the role o…
Hamas
Since the electoral win of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas's ‘Change and Reform’ candidates in legislative elections in January 2006 and the subsequent formation of a Hamas government in April 2006 the dynamics of democratic politics on the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been severely undermined and challenged. By June 2007 Hamas had complete control of the Gaza Strip and President Abbas had formed a separate ‘emergency government’ located on …
Islam and Violence in the Modern Era
This book examines dimensions of Islam and violence within wider debates about politics, history, faith, power and struggle both within Muslims' realms and outside. It explores the motif of violence i
Political Islam and the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict
The political and ideological positions of Islamist organizations with regard to the Israeli Palestinian conflict are reflected in both historic and contemporary discourse and organization. Since the period of the British mandate and the Balfour Declaration, Islamists from across the Muslim world have outlined and taken up a variety of positions with regard to the dynamics of the evolving dimensions of the conflict. Additionally, the very symboli…
Faith in democracy
This study addresses systematically the rising phenomenon of insurgency in Iraq and concurrent democratic developments since the fall of Saddam Hussein. It demonstrates two main features of the democratization process. First, not only that democratization is taking place within an unstable post-war environment but that much emergent Islamist discourse is also stifling the rebuilding of institutions where democratic rights are protected. Second, d…
Losing Peace in the Middle East
Prepared for Power
This article examines the development of Hamas and its prospects for power in the wake of electoral successes, changes within the broader movement of Palestinian nationalism and the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip. The challenges that now beset Hamas are discussed in tandem with a reflection of demands related to governance, democracy, security and reform that affect many societies emerging from conflict. The major contention lies with …
Waving, Not Drowning
In the arena of ethno-national conflict, the adoption of a ceasefire is regarded as a key trigger for allowing the development of subsequent political initiatives in peacemaking. Armed elements within Islamism, however, are often understood as ruling out ceasefire and promoting a counter-agenda of armed struggle without compromise. Thus, in Israel and in the international community, most regarded the Hamas and Islamic Jihad ceasefire (hudna) of J…
E lusive I ngredient
This essay argues that the significant shift in the political power balance in the occupied Palestinian territories toward the Islamists in recent years has major implications for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and must be taken into account if there is any chance for a successful resolution. The authors, who have first-hand involvement with conflict resolution and negotiations with Hamas, survey the movement's evolution on the ground, it…
Fundamentalisms and the state
Journal Article Fundamentalisms and the state: remaking polities, economies and militance Get access Fundamentalisms and the state: remaking polities, economies and militance. Edited by Martin E. Martyand R. Scott Appleby. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1996. 698pp. Index. Pb.: £21.95. ISBN 0 226 50884 6. Beverley Milton-Edwards Beverley Milton-Edwards 1The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Palestinian state‐building
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E lusive I ngredient
This essay argues that the significant shift in the political power balance in the occupied Palestinian territories toward the Islamists in recent years has major implications for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and must be taken into account if there is any chance for a successful resolution. The authors, who have first-hand involvement with conflict resolution and negotiations with Hamas, survey the movement's evolution on the ground, it…
The ‘Warriors Break’
Ceasefires are a difficult thing to achieve. No more so than in the conflicts of the Middle East. Without ceasefires civilians caught in wars remain vulnerable. As recent events in the Middle East have demonstrated though ceasefires are difficult to negotiate and are far more likely to breakdown than succeed. When it comes to the notion of negotiating ceasefires with Islamist groups, in particular, there is a widely held belief in Western policy-…
Façade democracy and Jordan
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Hamas
Since the electoral win of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas's ‘Change and Reform’ candidates in legislative elections in January 2006 and the subsequent formation of a Hamas government in April 2006 the dynamics of democratic politics on the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been severely undermined and challenged. By June 2007 Hamas had complete control of the Gaza Strip and President Abbas had formed a separate ‘emergency government’ located on …
Forgoing primacy
Since the Oslo Accords were signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in September 1993, the international community has supported civil policing programmes. It has done so as part of its development commitments to Palestinian state-building. Such programmes were, until the outbreak of the second Intifada in 2000, largely regarded as successful in terms of supporting the establishment of a Palestinian civil police (P…
Securitizing charity
In this article, the argument is offered that securitization of the Palestinian zakat committees became a weapon in the counter-terror arsenal of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) as each sought to exert hegemony over what became framed as a ‘common enemy.’ The article extends the debate as it relates to the increasingly hostile response by state actors and the international community to the work of non- and semi-governmental Muslim chari…
Hamas and the Arab Spring
The Ascendance of Political Islam
This article outlines the means by which the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas has developed and implemented a consolidation of power strategy that is inexorably driving it to a state of increasingly authoritarian control in the Gaza Strip. It discusses the factors that have driven Hamas in terms of power seeking as primordial to all radical Islamist movements or as a result of or response to other factors outside its control. The article highli…
The concept of jihad and the Palestinian Islamic movement
(1992). The concept of jihad and the Palestinian Islamic movement: a comparison of ideas and techniques. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 48-53
Missing the 'devils' we knew? Israel and political Islam amid the Arab Awakening
While the immediate outcome of the Iraq War of 2003 was certainly to Israel's strategic advantage, the more immediate and indeed visceral challenge of the ongoing Al-Aqsa intifada has dominated the security horizons of most Israelis. The legacy of this conflict, with its strong Islamist overtones, has clearly had a bearing on how the Arab Awakening has come to be perceived by Israel. Taking this experience as its starting point, this article exam…
Order Without Law? An Anatomy of Hamas Security
In the struggle to assert and consolidate its power, the Hamas movement of the Palestinian territories has devised several strategies for control. In recognition that control of security remains a key goal for any power-seeker, following its election victory in January 2006, Hamas entered into a fierce and ultimately successful conflict with Fatah for control of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Interior and Palestinian Security Forces (PSF) …
Islamist Versus Islamist
Islam's diversity is a direct result of centuries of schism and factionalism, and presents a challenge to the original spirit of unity as envisaged by its founder, the Prophet Mohammed. Rivalry within Islam undermines the precedent notion of unity through communal belonging (tawhid and ummah). Yet in the twenty-first century this diversity is ignored, and political Islam is represented as being more of a monolith than a spectrum of ideas and aspi…
Political Islam and the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict
The political and ideological positions of Islamist organizations with regard to the Israeli Palestinian conflict are reflected in both historic and contemporary discourse and organization. Since the period of the British mandate and the Balfour Declaration, Islamists from across the Muslim world have outlined and taken up a variety of positions with regard to the dynamics of the evolving dimensions of the conflict. Additionally, the very symboli…
Faith in democracy
This study addresses systematically the rising phenomenon of insurgency in Iraq and concurrent democratic developments since the fall of Saddam Hussein. It demonstrates two main features of the democratization process. First, not only that democratization is taking place within an unstable post-war environment but that much emergent Islamist discourse is also stifling the rebuilding of institutions where democratic rights are protected. Second, d…
Policing Palestinian society
This paper examines policing during the Palestinian uprising. It looks at the formation of the Palestinian Police Force (PPF) in 1993/94 under the framework of the Autonomy Agreement (Oslo Accords) signed on September 13, 1993 between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The paper explores the model of policing adopted under this framework suggesting that transition is allowing the perpetuation of an authorita…
Political Islam in Palestine in an environment of peace
The announcement in the summer of 1993 of secret negotiations between senior figures in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Government of Israel came as a surprise to all those involved with the Arab-Israeli conflict. The product of these secret negotiations, the Oslo and Cairo Accords have paved the way for political momentum that is a controlled and incremental experiment in ending the state of conflict which has dominated rel…
Policing the peace
The concept of jihad and the Palestinian Islamic movement
(1992). The concept of jihad and the Palestinian Islamic movement: a comparison of ideas and techniques. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 48-53
Façade democracy and Jordan
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Political Islam in Palestine in an environment of peace
The announcement in the summer of 1993 of secret negotiations between senior figures in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Government of Israel came as a surprise to all those involved with the Arab-Israeli conflict. The product of these secret negotiations, the Oslo and Cairo Accords have paved the way for political momentum that is a controlled and incremental experiment in ending the state of conflict which has dominated rel…
Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Journal Article Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the politics of women's resistance Get access Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the politics of women's resistance. By Simona Sharoni. Syracuse, NY: University of Syracuse Press. 1995. 199pp. Index. $29.95; ISBN 1 815 62643 6. Pb.: $14.95; ISBN 0 815 60299 5. Beverley Milton-Edwards Beverley Milton-Edwards 1The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this auth…
Policing the peace
Policing Palestinian society
This paper examines policing during the Palestinian uprising. It looks at the formation of the Palestinian Police Force (PPF) in 1993/94 under the framework of the Autonomy Agreement (Oslo Accords) signed on September 13, 1993 between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The paper explores the model of policing adopted under this framework suggesting that transition is allowing the perpetuation of an authorita…
Fundamentalisms and the state
Journal Article Fundamentalisms and the state: remaking polities, economies and militance Get access Fundamentalisms and the state: remaking polities, economies and militance. Edited by Martin E. Martyand R. Scott Appleby. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1996. 698pp. Index. Pb.: £21.95. ISBN 0 226 50884 6. Beverley Milton-Edwards Beverley Milton-Edwards 1The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought
Journal Article Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought Get access Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought. By Daniel Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. 185pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 521 57077 8. Beverley Milton-Edwards Beverley Milton-Edwards 1The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 568–569,…
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REVEALING THE HOLY LAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. By Kathleen Stewart Howe. Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 1997. 144pp. $US 60 (hb), $US 29.95 (pb). THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘ABBASID AUTOCRACY: THE ‘ABBASID ARMY, KHURASAN AND ADHARBAYJAN. By Fukuzo Amabe, Kyoto University Press, 1995 xi + 322pp. THE BUKHARANS: A DYNASTIC, DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY, 1550–1702. By Audrey Burton. Richmond, Surrey, UK; Curzon Press, 1997; xxxvii …
Palestinian state‐building
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Abdullah's Jordan
Researching the Radical
Waving, Not Drowning
In the arena of ethno-national conflict, the adoption of a ceasefire is regarded as a key trigger for allowing the development of subsequent political initiatives in peacemaking. Armed elements within Islamism, however, are often understood as ruling out ceasefire and promoting a counter-agenda of armed struggle without compromise. Thus, in Israel and in the international community, most regarded the Hamas and Islamic Jihad ceasefire (hudna) of J…
E lusive I ngredient
This essay argues that the significant shift in the political power balance in the occupied Palestinian territories toward the Islamists in recent years has major implications for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and must be taken into account if there is any chance for a successful resolution. The authors, who have first-hand involvement with conflict resolution and negotiations with Hamas, survey the movement's evolution on the ground, it…
Losing Peace in the Middle East
Prepared for Power
This article examines the development of Hamas and its prospects for power in the wake of electoral successes, changes within the broader movement of Palestinian nationalism and the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip. The challenges that now beset Hamas are discussed in tandem with a reflection of demands related to governance, democracy, security and reform that affect many societies emerging from conflict. The major contention lies with …
Islam and Violence in the Modern Era
This book examines dimensions of Islam and violence within wider debates about politics, history, faith, power and struggle both within Muslims' realms and outside. It explores the motif of violence i
Political Islam and the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict
The political and ideological positions of Islamist organizations with regard to the Israeli Palestinian conflict are reflected in both historic and contemporary discourse and organization. Since the period of the British mandate and the Balfour Declaration, Islamists from across the Muslim world have outlined and taken up a variety of positions with regard to the dynamics of the evolving dimensions of the conflict. Additionally, the very symboli…
Faith in democracy
This study addresses systematically the rising phenomenon of insurgency in Iraq and concurrent democratic developments since the fall of Saddam Hussein. It demonstrates two main features of the democratization process. First, not only that democratization is taking place within an unstable post-war environment but that much emergent Islamist discourse is also stifling the rebuilding of institutions where democratic rights are protected. Second, d…
Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945
This third edition of Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 analyzes the nature of conflict in the Middle East, with its racial, ethnic, political, cultural, religious and economic factors. Throughout the book Peter Hinchcliffe and Beverley Milton-Edwards put the main conflicts into their wider context, with thematic debates on issues such as the emergence of radical Islam, the resolution of conflicts, diplomacy and peace-making, and the role o…
Hamas
Since the electoral win of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas's ‘Change and Reform’ candidates in legislative elections in January 2006 and the subsequent formation of a Hamas government in April 2006 the dynamics of democratic politics on the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been severely undermined and challenged. By June 2007 Hamas had complete control of the Gaza Strip and President Abbas had formed a separate ‘emergency government’ located on …
Order Without Law? An Anatomy of Hamas Security
In the struggle to assert and consolidate its power, the Hamas movement of the Palestinian territories has devised several strategies for control. In recognition that control of security remains a key goal for any power-seeker, following its election victory in January 2006, Hamas entered into a fierce and ultimately successful conflict with Fatah for control of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Interior and Palestinian Security Forces (PSF) …
The Ascendance of Political Islam
This article outlines the means by which the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas has developed and implemented a consolidation of power strategy that is inexorably driving it to a state of increasingly authoritarian control in the Gaza Strip. It discusses the factors that have driven Hamas in terms of power seeking as primordial to all radical Islamist movements or as a result of or response to other factors outside its control. The article highli…
Jordan
Created as a mechanism for maintaining British influence through a local patron, Jordan’s future never looked certain. Nevertheless, under the leadership of the Hashemite monarchy led by Abdullah and then his grandson Hussein, the Kingdom of Jordan became a permanent feature on the map of the modern Middle East. Under the rule of King Abdullah II, Jordan has remained an influential regional player in the Middle East Peace Process, its strategic p…
Revolt and revolution
The outbreak of revolt and revolution in the Middle East has given rise to a re-consideration of threat and security analyses as they pertain to the region and beyond. The resilience of some authoritarian regimes and the rapid collapse of others signal a significant transition within the region to which jihadi Islamist groups form one part of a powerful matrix. This article analyses the part and place of jihadi Islamism and Islamisms 1 1. Islamis…
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