This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The project considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. As power is always accompanied by resistance, the authors engage with and explores forms of everyday resistance to the logics and regimes of neoliberal governance and settler colonialism. They investigate wide-ranging issues and dynamics related to international governance, liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development, the claim to politics, and the notion and practice of resistance. This work will be of interest for academics focusing on modern Middle Eastern politics, international relations, as well as for courses on contemporary conflicts, peacebuilding, and development.

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**Alaa Tartir **is Research Associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland, and Program Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.

**Timothy Seidel **is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, USA. 

Klappentext
This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The project considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. As power is always accompanied by resistance, the authors engage with and explores forms of everyday resistance to the logics and regimes of neoliberal governance and settler colonialism. They investigate wide-ranging issues and dynamics related to international governance, liberal peacebuilding, statebuilding, and development, the claim to politics, and the notion and practice of resistance. This work will be of interest for academics focusing on modern Middle Eastern politics, international relations, as well as for courses on contemporary conflicts, peacebuilding, and development.

Inhalt
Table of Contents  

Foreword, by Richard Falk

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1.      Introduction: The Rule of Power in Palestine, by Timothy Seidel and Alaa Tartir

Part I: Resistance and Mobilization Against Apartheid, Settler Colonialism, and Repression

2.      The Settler-Colonial Present: Palestinian State-building under Apartheid, by Ben White 3.      Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign States: Settler Colonial Violence and the Visibility of Resistance in Palestine, by Timothy Seidel

4.      Active and Transformative Sumud among Palestinian Activists in Israel, by Nijmeh Ali 5.      Who Protests in Palestine? Mobilization across Class under the Palestinian Authority, by Dana El Kurd

Part II: External Intervention and International Aid

6.      More Important than Other Conflicts: The Uniqueness of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in EC/EU Discourse, by Anders Persson

7.      Neoliberalism as Aid for the Settler Colonization of the occupied Palestinian territories after Oslo, by Jeremy Wildeman

8.      Solidarity Donors and Popular Education in the West Bank, by Melanie Meinzer Part III: Security Sector Reform, Resistance, and Authoritarianism

9.      Criminalizing Resistance: Security Sector Reform and Palestinian Authoritarianism, by Alaa Tartir

10.  Securitizing Peace: The EU's Aiding and Abetting Authoritarianism, by Alaa Tartir

11.  Conclusion, by Riccardo Bocco

Index