Resuming Arab Palestine -- The legal framework : disputing in, over, and outside courts -- Constituting and reconstituting Palestine -- Inventing a parliament -- Civil society in theory and practice -- Democracy, nationalism, and contesting the Palestinian curriculum
Summary
This work gives an internal perspective on Palestinian politics viewing political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the Arab-Israeli conflict. It presents the meaning of state-building and self-reliance as Palestinians have understood them between 1993 and 2002
Analysis
20th century
arab israeli conflict
arab national models
arab palestine
arab world
constitutionalism
fieldwork
historical
history buffs
insider perspective
interviews
legal development
middle east
nation building
nonfiction
oslo accords
palestine
palestinian legislative council
palestinian politics
palestinian reformers
political perspective
political science
politics
social activists
textbooks
world politics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index