Summary
Adam Hanieh’s charge against the Palestinian state-formation literature in Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: it views Palestinian society as a self-contained social formation and takes the territorial borders of the national state — or the Palestinian state-in-formation — as the exclusive vantage point for understanding state-building (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.48).
Details
- Trade and financial relationships with neighboring countries are considered in that literature, but as external to Palestinian social formation as such (PDF p.48).
- Hanieh’s counter-claim: the developmental tendencies of the regional scale already exist internal to Palestinian social formation, and without considering how regional processes have been internalized into Palestinian state and class formation under the Palestinian Authority, no state-building trajectory — one-state or two-state — can be accurately assessed (PDF p.48-49).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Adam Hanieh, State-building