The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process?

This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace. It offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three processes - in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine - and provides historical and comparative perspectives on the failure of the Middle East peace process.

Autorentext
GUY BEN-PORAT is a lecturer in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel and Northern Ireland (2006).

Inhalt
Introduction; G.Ben-Porat Israeli Flags Flying Alongside Belfast's Apartheid Walls: A New Era of Comparisons and Connections; A.Guelke PART 1: STRUCTURAL EXPLANATIONS The State-to-Nation Balance: A Key to Explaining Difficulties in Implementing Peace The Israeli-Palestinian Case; B.Miller Consociational Theory and Peace Agreements in Pluri-National Places: Northern Ireland and Other Cases; J.McGarry & B.O'Leary Ending Apartheid: The Relevance of Consociationalism; R.Taylor Realism, Liberalism and the Collapse of the Oslo Process: Inherently Flawed or Flawed Implementation?; J.Rynhold PART 2: THE DYNAMICS OF PEACE Sponsors or Spoilers: Diasporas and Peace Processes in the Homeland; R.Schwartz People's Diplomacy and People's Vigilantism: Israeli Grassroots Activism 1993-2003; T.Hermann Passive Reconciliation in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; R.Nets-Zehngut Identity Shift in Settlement Processes: The Northern Ireland Case; J.Todd PART 3: SUCCESS AND FAILURE Oslo: Liberalization and De-Colonization; Y.Peled Mandela in Palestine: Peacemaking in Divided Societies; H.Adam Conclusion; G.Ben-Porat