Guides: HIS 357: History of the Modern Middle East: Government

Government

Government – will the Palestinians have an independent state? If so, will this state have the full rights and functions of other sovereign states (e.g. military force, foreign policy, interaction with other states) or will it be subject to certain limitations? If not, what type of autonomy will the Palestinians have, if any?

Enemies and Neighbors : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
ISBN: 9780802127037
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Black offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today, published on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources--from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting--to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.
The Modern Middle East by James L. Gelvin
ISBN: 9780190218867
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Extensively revised and updated in the wake of the Arab uprisings, the changes that they fostered, and the fault lines that they exposed, the fourth edition of The Modern Middle East explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, andpolitical life in the region over the course of the past 500 years

Armed Struggle and the Search for State by Yezid Sayigh
ISBN: 9780191513541
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Based on unprecedented access to PLO archives and personnel, this groundbreaking new study represents the definitive history of the Palestinian national movement. Spanning the 45 years from the establishment of the State 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. This masterly new work spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in mandate Palestine in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993.
Politics of Change In Palestine by Michael Bröning
ISBN: 9781849645829
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Highlights the political activity in Palestine that is building towards a coherent national movement to challenge Israel in the occupied territories.
One State, Two States by Benny Morris
ISBN: 9780300156041
Publication Date: 2009-04-28
"The book scrutinizes the history of the goals of the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist movement, then considers the various one- and two-state proposals made by different streams within the two movements. It also looks at the willingness or unwillingness of each movement to find an accommodation based on compromise. Morris assesses the viability and practicality of proposed solutions in the light of complicated and acrimonious realities. Throughout his groundbreaking career, Morris has reshaped understanding of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Here, once again, he arrives at a new way of thinking about the discord, injecting a ray of hope in a region where it is most sorely needed." - David Remnick, "New Yorker"
Countdown to Statehood by Hillel Frisch
ISBN: 9780585076171
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Countdown to Statehood, based on Arabic, English, and Hebrew language sources, analyzes the form that the Palestinian state is likely to take. The book looks at past institution-building patterns in the West Bank and Gaza, the relationship between the PLO and the local Palestinians, and the nature of the conflict with Israel from 1967 through the first year of the Palestinian Authority under Arafat's leadership. A major reference point in this analysis is the Zionist experience of state-building in Israel's own pre-independence era.