Joel Beinin; Rebecca L Stein: Oslo Era sku-860657701

The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 is a hardcover volume in Middle Eastern History Books by Joel Beinin; Rebecca L Stein (sku-860657701). After the 1993 Oslo Accords, people around the world expected peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the accords brought massive economic growth and a sense of security.

For Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, closures, militarized checkpoints and bypass roads contributed to a dramatic rise in poverty and unemployment. Settlement expansion fractured Palestinian territories and communities. Anger at the changed shape of the Israeli occupation erupted in a second uprising, or intifada, in 2000.

Scholars and journalists examine political changes from the Oslo Accords through the second intifada and Yasser Arafat's death. Their essays address the Oslo process's political economy, social and political changes in Palestine and Israel, United States foreign policy, social movements and political activism, and the relationship between cultural and political-economic processes.

The volume includes documents, maps, poetry and graphic art. Contributors: Ammiel Alcalay, Lori A. Allen, Marwan Barghouti, Joel Beinin, Robert Blecher, Elliott Colla, Catherine Cook, Jonathan Cook, Richard Falk, Khaled Furani, Rita Giacaman, Lisa Hajjar, Jeff Halper, Rema Hammami, Sari Hanafi, Adam Hanieh, Islah Jad, Penny Johnson, Rela Mazali, Emma C.

Murphy, Issam Nassar, Ilan Pappé, Yoav Peled, Mouin Rabbani, Shira Robinson, Sara Roy, Rosemary Sayigh, Charmaine Seitz, Adam Shatz, Rebecca L. Stein, Gary Sussman, Salim Tamari, David Tartakover, Graham Usher, Sharif Waked, and Oren Yiftachel.