ABSTRACT
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 leading figures in the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, delegates to the negotiations with Israel, and the Palestinian political opposition, it is a timely account of the Israel/Palestine conflict from a Palestinian political perspective.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|69 pages
Toward an Institutional Solution to Palestinian Nationalism
chapter 2|31 pages
From PLO to PA and on Toward Statehood
chapter 3|23 pages
Authoritative Leadership and the New National Project
part II|36 pages
The Framework of Transition
chapter 4|34 pages
PLO-Israel Agreements of the Oslo Process
part III|171 pages
From Liberation Movement to National Authority to Statehood: Progress and Regression
