{"product_id":"palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited-capital-and-state-building-in-the-west-bank-1478014091","title":"Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1478014091\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rabie, Kareem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is ?hrowing a party, and the whole world is invited.?In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyads rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on large-scale private housing development in an effort toward state-scale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestines subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67809589690656,"sku":"NEW1478014091","price":48.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71X0O6yY3ZL.jpg?v=1792135399","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/en-ca\/products\/palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited-capital-and-state-building-in-the-west-bank-1478014091","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}