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By (author) Yezid Sayigh; By (author) Sayigh Yezid
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This text spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993.
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Armed Struggle and The Search for State spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993. Contrary to the conventional view that national liberation movements proceed with state-building only after attaining independence, the case of the PLO shows that state-building may shape political institutionalisation, even in the absence of an autonomous territorial, economic, and social base. This insightful study traces the political, ideological, and organisational evolution of the PLO and its constituent of guerrilla groups. Taking the much-vaunted ”armed struggle” as its connecting there, it shows how conflict was used to mobilise the mass constituency, assert particular discourses of revolution and nationalism, construct statist institutions, and establish legitimacy of a new political class and bureaucratic elite. The book draws extensively on PLO archives, official publications and internal documents of the various guerrilla groups, and over 400 interviews conducted by the author with he PLO rank-and-file. Its span, primary sources and conceptual framework make this the definitive work on the subject.
Table of contents:
INTRODUCTION ; PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR PALESTINE, 1949-66 ; CHAPTER ONE: WHY PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM? ; CHAPTER TWO: PALESTINIANS IN ARAB UNIFORM ; CHAPTER THREE: REBIRTH OF THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT ; CHAPTER FOUR: THE WATERSHED ; CHAPTER FIVE: CHALLENGES OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE ; PART TWO: YEARS OF REVOLUTION, 1967-72 ; CHAPTER SIX: TRANSFORMING DEFEAT INTO OPPORTUNITY ; CHAPTER SEVEN: CARVING OUT THE GUERRILLA SANCTUARY ; CHAPTER EIGHT: GUERRILLA WAR IN THEORY AND PRACTICE ; CHAPTER NINE: THE MAKING OF THE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM ; CHAPTER TEN: DUAL POWER ; CHAPTER ELEVEN: END OF A MYTH ; CHAPTER TWELVE: INTERREGNUM ; PART THREE: STATE IN EXILE, 1973-82 ; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: AT THE CROSSROADS ; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE LEBANESE CRISIS ; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE STRUGGLE FOR LEBANON ; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: AMBITION FRUSTRATED, SANCTUARY PRESERVED ; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A CEASEFIRE, NOT A TRUCE ; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: REARGUARD ACTION ; CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE STATE-IN-EXILE ; CHAPTER TWENTY: EXTENDING THE STATE-IN-EXILE OR CAPTURING IT? ; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: NO LULL BEFORE THE STORM ; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE LEBANON WAR ; PART FOUR: SQUARING THE CIRCLE: STATEHOOD INTO AUTONOMY, 1983-93 ; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: ASSAULTING THE STATE-IN-EXILE FROM WITHIN ; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: STRUGGLE WITHIN, STRUGGLE WITHOUT ; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: INTIFADA TO THE RESCUE ; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: THE ROAD TO OSLO ; CONCLUSION
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comprehensive and complete, and may, indeed be unique in terms of its combination of careful scholarship and an inside perspective
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This book is likely to be the last word on the topic of Palestinian armed struggle, both because there is little to say beyond Yezid Sayigh”s extensive chronicle and analysis, and because it examines a phase of Palestinian history that has definitively ended … This work is monumental for reasons which go far beyond its hefty size, because of the intensive research involved … Few authors could have brought to this task the necessary expertise and personal experience, combined with a critical faculty and apparently inexhaustible patience … all serious students of the subject will appreciate this book”s comprehensive analysis of the Palestinian national movement.
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With 692 pages of text and 148 pages of notes, this massive work may well be used more as a reference than a
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