1st Edition

The Politics of the Palestinian Authority From Oslo to Al-Aqsa

By Nigel Parsons Copyright 2005
460 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

460 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

460 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the development of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from a liberation movement to a national authority, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Based on intensive fieldwork in the West Bank, Gaza and Cairo, Nigel Parsons analyzes Palestinian internal politics and their institutional-building by looking at the development of the PLO. Drawing on interviews with... Read more
1. Conceptualizing Palestinian Institutions: Structure, Agency, and Transition  2. From PLO to PA and on toward Statehood: Palestinian Institutional Development from 1964 to 2003  3. Authoritative Leadership and the New National Project: The Politics of Palestinian Diplomacy in Madrid, Washington, and Oslo  4. PLO-Israel Agreements of the Oslo Process  5. The Bureaucracy and Security Apparatus of the National Project  6. Socio-Political Foundations: Civil Society, the Legislative Council, and Fatah as Party of State  7. Oslo Implodes  8. After Arafat, on to al-Aqsa: Palestinian Institutions Face the Future

Biography

Nigel Parsons