Failure of the Middle East Peace Process A Comparative Analysis of Peace Implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa

by Ben-Porat, Guy

• ISBN13: 9780230507098
• ISBN10: 0230507093
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace by focusing on the different aspects of implementation and of the causes of the success or failure of peace processes. While in the early 1990s the conflicts/peace processes in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine shared commonalities, a decade later it is all but obvious that they have followed different trajectories and reached different outcomes. This edited volume offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three processes and provides historical and comparative perspectives regarding their contemporary realities.

Author Biography

GUY BEN-PORAT is Lecturer in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: Implementing Peace Agreements	p. 1
Israeli Flags Flying Alongside Belfast's Apartheid Walls: A New Era of Comparisons and Connections	p. 19
Structural Explanations
The State-to-Nation Balance: A Key to Explaining Difficulties in Implementing Peace - The Israeli-Palestinian Case	p. 39
Consociational Theory and Peace Agreements in Pluri-National Places: Northern Ireland and Other Cases	p. 70
Ending Apartheid: The Relevance of Consociationalism	p. 97
Realism, Liberalism, and the Collapse of the Oslo Process: Inherently Flawed or Flawed Implementation?	p. 111
The Dynamics of Peace
Sponsors or Spoilers: Diasporas and Peace Processes in the Homeland	p. 135
People's Diplomacy and People's Vigilantism: Israeli Grassroots Activism 1993-2003	p. 155
Passive Reconciliation in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	p. 178
Identity Shift in Settlement Processes: The Northern Ireland Case	p. 195
Success and Failure
Who Was Afraid of Decolonization?	p. 219
Mandela in Palestine: Peacemaking in Divided Societies	p. 236
Conclusion: Implementing Peace Agreements	p. 259
Author Index	p. 266
Subject Index	p. 271
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