Armed Struggle and the Search for State
The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 November 1999
- ISBN 9780198296430
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages1000 pages
- Size 232x156x48 mm
- Weight 1493 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 maps, 1 table 0
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Short description:
Based on unprecedented access to PLO archives and empirical research from a variety of sources, this groundbreaking study represents the definitive history of the Palestinian national movement. Spanning the 45 years from the establishment of the Sate of Israel in 1948 to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993, it sheds radical new light on the history of the Middle East in the last half of the twentieth century.
MoreLong description:
Armed Struggle and The Search for State spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993. Contrary to the conventional view that national liberation movements proceed with state-building only after attaining independence, the case of the PLO shows that state-building may shape political institutionalisation, even in the absence of an autonomous territorial, economic, and social base.
This insightful study traces the political, ideological, and organisational evolution of the PLO and its constituent of guerrilla groups. Taking the much-vaunted 'armed struggle' as its connecting there, it shows how conflict was used to mobilise the mass constituency, assert particular discourses of revolution and nationalism, construct statist institutions, and establish legitimacy of a new political class and bureaucratic elite.
The book draws extensively on PLO archives, official publications and internal documents of the various guerrilla groups, and over 400 interviews conducted by the author with he PLO rank-and-file. Its span, primary sources and conceptual framework make this the definitive work on the subject.
comprehensive and complete, and may, indeed be unique in terms of its combination of careful scholarship and an inside perspective
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Searching for Palestine, 1949-66
Chapter One: Why Palestinian Nationalism?
Chapter Two: Palestinians in Arab Uniform
Chapter Three: Rebirth of the Palestinian National Movement
Chapter Four: The Watershed
Chapter Five: Challenges of the Armed Struggle
Part Two: Years of Revolution, 1967-72
Chapter Six: Transforming Defeat into Opportunity
Chapter Seven: Carving Out the Guerrilla Sanctuary
Chapter Eight: Guerrilla War in Theory and Practice
Chapter Nine: The Making of the Palestinian Political System
Chapter Ten: Dual Power
Chapter Eleven: End of a Myth
Chapter Twelve: Interregnum
Part Three: State in Exile, 1973-82
Chapter Thirteen: At the Crossroads
Chapter Fourteen: The Lebanese Crisis
Chapter Fifteen: The Struggle for Lebanon
Chapter Sixteen: Ambition Frustrated, Sanctuary Preserved
Chapter Seventeen: A Ceasefire, not a Truce
Chapter Eighteen: Rearguard Action
Chapter Nineteen: The State-in-Exile
Chapter Twenty: Extending the State-in-Exile or Capturing It?
Chapter Twenty-One: No Lull Before the Storm
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Lebanon War
Part Four: Squaring the Circle: Statehood Into Autonomy, 1983-93
Chapter Twenty-Three: Assaulting the State-in-Exile from Within
Chapter Twenty-Four: Struggle Within, Struggle Without
Chapter Twenty-Five: Intifada to the Rescue
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Road to Oslo
Conclusion
