Producing spoilers : peacemaking and the production of enmity in a secular age /

Supporters of Hamas and radical religious Israeli settlers seem to serve one purpose in the international peace process: to provide an excuse for its failure. High-level diplomatic negotiators and grassroots peace activists alike blame religious extremists for acting as ""spoilers"&qu...

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Dalsheim, Joyce
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Zusammenfassung:
Supporters of Hamas and radical religious Israeli settlers seem to serve one purpose in the international peace process: to provide an excuse for its failure. High-level diplomatic negotiators and grassroots peace activists alike blame religious extremists for acting as ""spoilers"" of rational negotiation, and have often attempted to neutralize, co-opt, or marginalize them. In Producing Spoilers, Joyce Dalsheim explores the problem of stalled peacemaking by viewing spoilers not as the cause, but as a symptom of systemic malfunctions within the concept of the nation-state itself, and the secul
Umfang:
1 online resource (253 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-938723-0
0-19-994443-1
0-19-938724-9
Schlagworte:
Peace-building > Religious aspects.
Peace-building > Middle East.
Radicalism > Religious aspects.
Radicalism > Middle East.
Enemies > Middle East.
Religion and politics.
Religion and politics > Middle East.
Arab-Israeli conflict > 1993- > Peace.
Judaism and politics > Israel.
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