1st Edition

Palestinian Politics and the Middle East Peace Process Consensus and Competition in the Palestinian Negotiating Team

By Ghassan Khatib Copyright 2010
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Eight years after the second Palestinian uprising, the Oslo accords signed in 1993 seem to have failed. The reasons for the failure continue to fascinate students, politicians, researchers and policymakers alike. This book explores one of the major aspects of the bilateral peace process – the composition and behaviour of the Palestinian negotiating team, which deeply impacted the outcome of the... Read more

1. The Literature Survey  2. The Emergence and Nature of the Palestinian Leadership  3. Palestinian Participation in the Peace Process: The Madrid Conference and Washington Negotiations  4. The Oslo Agreement - 1993  5. The Negotiations over the Implementation of the Declaration of Principles  6. Palestinian Leadership and Palestinian Authority

Biography

Ghassan Khatib is Vice President and lecturer at Birzeit University, Palestine. He founded, and was the Director of the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre. He was also formerly a member of the Joint Working Group on Israeli-Palestinian Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, USA.

Overall this book adds a significant and distinctive contribution to the scholarly work on Palestine and provides various hints and insights to what went wrong over the last two decades in the Middle East peace process and what can be learnt so as to avoid the mistakes in the future. At the end of the day it remains an inspiring book for an uninspiring peace process.

Alaa Tartir  - London School of Economics, JCTS