Book Review: The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

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Ramona Wadi's review of co-authored book by Pace and Sen entitled The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

The international community, through the Oslo Accords, has created an intricate web of terminology that points towards a permanently stalled state-building process. In their book, The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft (Routledge, 2019), Michelle Pace and Somdeep Sen expose what lies beneath the façade coined as the “State of Palestine”, a term which the Palestinian Authority covets and disseminates to validate its own role in the political process.
Pace and Sen depart from the premise that the “imagined state” is a means of subversion that works against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories. “The PA has persisted as an institution that acts like a state but concurrently undermines the Palestinian struggle for sovereign statehood.”

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Palestinian politics and society