The State of Palestine: A critical analysis
Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Background to this discussion -- Data collection -- The city of Nablus -- Villages in Area 'C' -- Balata Camp -- Findings -- Overview of the chapters -- A note on methodology -- Notes -- 2 The 'state' and Palestine -- Statebuilding, not stateformation -- Peacebuilding and liberalism -- After the Cold War -- Good governance and security -- The Palestinian context -- The Oslo process in Palestine -- Class structure -- The PA -- Economic torpor -- Influence from outside -- The impact of foreign aid -- Neoliberalism in Palestine -- Impact on the security apparatus -- The alignment of forces -- War of position -- 3 The fragmentation of Palestine -- Zionism's promise unfulfilled -- Israel and globalisation -- The First Intifada -- Occupation policy -- The Palestinian backdrop to negotiations -- Uprising -- Divisions -- The Oslo process -- The birth of a bully -- The Palestinian elites -- The faÃade of peace dividends -- Crony capitalism -- Globalisation of the mid-.level elites -- Notes -- 4 Making plans -- The Second Intifada: four forms of coercion -- Spatial violence -- Kinetic violence -- Systemic violence -- Political violence -- Palestinian responses to the violence -- Disengagement -- Prison -- Rebranding the occupation in the West Bank -- Statebuilding -- 'Statebuilding' strategy -- Foreign agenda -- The envelope -- Notes -- 5 Palestinian authoritarianism -- Contradictory views on security and policing in Palestine -- Background on PA security services -- Culture and context of Palestine's security forces -- The schism and background on Hamas' rise -- Suppressing Nablus -- The meaning of the violence -- Notes -- 6 The 'State of Palestine'