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Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank
Duke University Press, 2021
Paper: 978-1-4780-1409-6 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-2140-7 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-1195-8 Library of Congress Classification HC415.254.R335 2021
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.” In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad's rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on large-scale private housing development in an effort toward state-scale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel. See other books on: Economic development projects | Israel & Palestine | Party | Urbanization | West Bank See other titles from Duke University Press |
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Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Duke University Press, 2021
Paper: 978-1-4780-1409-6
eISBN: 978-1-4780-2140-7
Cloth: 978-1-4780-1195-8
Paper: 978-1-4780-1409-6
eISBN: 978-1-4780-2140-7
Cloth: 978-1-4780-1195-8
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.” In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad's rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on large-scale private housing development in an effort toward state-scale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.
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