Building a Palestinian State
The Incomplete Revolution
Glenn Robinson(Author)
Indiana University Press
Published on 1. March 1997
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-253-33217-2 (ISBN)
Description
" ...provides a unique analysis of the various facets of grassroots organizations and their interaction with the emerging state institutions...a major and very timely contribution." - Ann Lesch. In this well-informed and accessibly written book, Glenn E. Robinson traces the emergence of a new political elite in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s and the grassroots political and social revolution it launched during the Intifada. Local self-help organizations forged in this period - student groups, labor unions, women's committees, agricultural relief committees, medical relief associations, and voluntary works organizations - took power away from the notables (the traditional landowning elite) and began building popular institutions which organized Palestinian society and which Israel found impossible to eliminate. Yet, in the post-Oslo period, power in the post-intifada polity was captured by an outside political force: Yasir Arafat and the PLO. The resulting disjunction between the grassroots popular authority of the new institutions and the centralizing, authoritarian tendencies of the PLO undermines the prospects for building a stable Palestinian state.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-33217-2 (9780253332172)
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Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Traditional Notable Elite in Palestine 2. The Rise of a New Political Elite in the West Bank and Gaza 3. The Professional Middle Class 4. Abu Barbur: Elite Conflict and Social Change in Bayt Sahur 5. Popular Committees in the Intifada 6. Hamas and the Islamist Mobilization 7. The Logic of Palestinian State-Building after Oslo Notes Index