Suchergebnisse

The aim of this article is to provide an answer to the question why, since the mid-1990s, the peace process initiated in 1993 has been exposed to an ongoing crisis, despite the fact that Israel as well as the PLO would benefit, if they worked toward a consolidation of the process. In the fall of 2000, at the latest, the crisis intensified to such an extent that the failure of the peace process as a whole cannot be excluded anymore. On the basis of a situation structural approach, which is indebted to rationalism, the article shows that the supposedly irrational behavior of Israel & the PLO can better be understood if two structural problems of the peace process are taken into consideration. Firstly, the architecture of the peace process is deficient, & secondly, societal influences promote a policy directed against the consolidation of the process. Adapted from the source document.