Polarized and Demobilized

Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine

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ID20021852
AuthorsDana El Kurd (0000-0002-7546-2731, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages226
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolarized and Demobilized (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190095864.001.0001
OpenAlexW4254086717
Open LibraryOL29826541M
ISBN9780190095864
LanguageEN
Citations received11

After the 1994 Oslo Accords, Palestinians were hopeful that an end to the Israeli occupation was within reach, and that a state would be theirs by 1999. With this promise, international powers became increasingly involved in Palestinian politics, and many shadows of statehood arose in the territories. Today, however, no state has emerged, and the occupation has become more entrenched. Concurrently, the Palestinian Authority has become increasingly authoritarian, and Palestinians ever more polarised and demobilised. Palestine is not unique in this: international involvement, and its disruptive effects, have been a constant across the contemporary Arab world. This book argues that internationally backed authoritarianism has an effect on society itself, not just on regime-level dynamics. It explains how the Oslo paradigm has demobilised Palestinians in a way that direct Israeli occupation, for many years, failed to do. Using a multi-method approach including interviews, historical analysis, and cutting-edge experimental data, Dana El Kurd reveals how international involvement has insulated Palestinian elites from the public, and strengthened their ability to engage in authoritarian practices. In turn, those practices have had profound effects on society, including crippling levels of polarisation and a weakened capacity for collective action

Action (physics) · Ancient history · Authoritarianism · Collective action · Democracy · Development economics · Palestine · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · 21st century · Arab-Israeli conflict · International cooperation · neocolonialism · Palestinian National Authority · Peace · politics and government · state repression · West Bank

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