Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited
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Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Capital and State Building in the West Bank

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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

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. The Site
  5. 2. Developers and Designers
  6. 3. Image, Process, and Precedent
  7. 4. Public Urban Planning
  8. 5. Housing Shortage and National Priority
  9. 6. Public-Private Partnership
  10. 7. Buyers and Villagers
  11. 8. Critique, Capital, and the Landscape
  12. 9. Settlers and the Land
  13. 10. The Law, Mirroring, and the State
  14. Conclusion
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. References
  18. Index