ABSTRACT
While the previous chapter displayed the efforts of the political elite in paving the way, especially as far as policies are concerned, for normalization, this chapter and the next one will examine the obstacles to a ‘warm peace’. Both chapters will argue that obstacles at the levels of structure and agency steered the process away from the path originally intended by the top-level political leaderships. In particular, it will discuss the structural obstacles to a warm peace, examining the political and economic relations, albeit from a Jordanian viewpoint. It will argue that notwithstanding the Jordanian leadership’s hopes for a warm peace, existing and emerging obstacles in these spheres made it difficult to move beyond the state of formal peace and to build a ‘warm’ one.
