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Abstract
"Had Arafat accepted Israeli offer at Camp David, the violence in recent months would have been more in the form of a Palestinian civil war. Or as Arafat reportedly asked Clinton when the American president was pushing hard for him to accept Barak's offer: 'Do you want to attend my funeral?'".
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... Hegemony occurs when ideology becomes natural as people begin to view and accept power differentials as inevitable (Gramsci, 1971). Hegemonic peace reflects power and not justice (Robinson, 2001). It reflects hegemonic Whiteness wherein being "white" is taken for granted as normative and ideal and thus becomes "a collective social force" that is "not merely an ideological or cultural artifact but carries material rewards" (Lewis, 2004, p. 634). ...
Peace and conflict scholarship cannot afford to ignore the challenges posed by ongoing racial oppression. The dominance of racially silent research in the United States and Europe has significant implications for how peace is examined and framed and thus shapes the implementation of peace processes and policies. Examining the five leading journals in peace and conflict studies and many institutional reports, we find significant omissions of race and racism scholarship and Black peace activists and scholars who presciently connected issues of conflict and peace with racism, antiracism, and social and racial justice. To help address these omissions, we demonstrate the implications of examining race and racism from a critical sociological perspective and how it can address distortions in peace and conflict studies and contribute to significant epistemological and practical shifts in the field. We show how the inclusion of these concepts and theories of race and racism challenges race-neutral scholarship’s preponderance in the field and upends many of its core assumptions.
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Writing for a wide audience, Mehran Kamrava takes us from fall of the Ottoman Empire to today, exploring along the way such central issues as the dynamics of economic development, authoritarian endurance, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. For this new, thoroughly revised edition, he has brought the book fully up to date by incorporating events and issues of the past few years. The Modern Middle East now includes information about the June 2009 Iranian presidential elections and their aftermath, changes precipitated so far by the Obama administration, Israel's attack on Gaza in 2008, the effects of globalization on economic development, and more.
Many observers have portrayed the Oslo Process as a milestone in the peacemaking process between Palestinians and Israelis. In this controversial and groundbreaking new work, McMahon challenges the interpretation of the Oslo Process as a breakthrough or new beginning in Palestinian-Israeli relations. He argues that the Oslo Process affected no discursive or non-discursive change and that the Oslo Process in fact institutionalized the analytics practices involved in Israeli and Palestinian relations. It should, McMahon concludes, be no surprise that the process ended with direct Palestinian-Israeli violence. This book will be crucial reading for scholars of Israeli and Palestinian relations as well as anyone who is interested in understanding what discursive change must occur for peace between Israel and Palestinians to be established and sustained.
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