Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank

In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which aimed to integrate Palestine into the global economy. This shift focused on large-scale private housing development, but it has maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 272 pages
\n Publication date: 07 May 2021
\n Publisher: Duke University Press
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In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad convened the inaugural Palestine Investment Conference, a historic event aimed at propelling Palestine's integration into the global economy. Fayyad characterized the conference as a grand celebration, extending an invitation to the entire world. This book by Kareem Rabie delves into the profound implications of this conference and Fayyad's rhetoric. It reveals a significant shift in economic and political practices that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than pursuing a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank prioritized large-scale private housing development as a means to achieve state-scale economic stability and market growth. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would pave the way for a sovereign and prosperous Palestinian state. However, as Rabie argues, these investment-driven policies have perpetuated the status quo of occupation, maintaining Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.

In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad convened the inaugural Palestine Investment Conference, a historic event aimed at propelling Palestine's integration into the global economy. Fayyad characterized the conference as a grand celebration, extending an invitation to the entire world. This book by Kareem Rabie delves into the profound implications of this conference and Fayyad's rhetoric. It reveals a significant shift in economic and political practices that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than pursuing a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank prioritized large-scale private housing development as a means to achieve state-scale economic stability and market growth. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would pave the way for a sovereign and prosperous Palestinian state. However, as Rabie argues, these investment-driven policies have perpetuated the status quo of occupation, maintaining Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.

\n Weight: 416g\n
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 23 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781478014096\n \n