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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451951403321

Autore

Lia Brynjar

Titolo

Building Arafat's police [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of international police assistance in the Palestinian territories after the Oslo Agreement / / Brynjar Lia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reading, UK, : Ithaca Press, c2007

ISBN

0-86372-467-1

1-281-35692-1

9786611356927

0-86372-356-X

1-4294-7796-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Disciplina

345.73052

Soggetti

Police - West Bank - Finance

Police - Gaza Strip - Finance

Economic assistance - West Bank

Economic assistance - Gaza Strip

Police - Supervision of - West Bank

Police - Supervision of - Gaza Strip

Police training - West Bank

Police training - Gaza Strip

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-352) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Donor diplomacy and the politics of police aid after Oslo -- "We began from zero" : a never-ending equipment and accommodation crisis -- In search of donor mechanisms for recurrent police costs -- The politics and technicalities of police funding -- Shifting priorities, dwindling leadership : police aid coordination in Gaza -- A missed opportunity? : the failure of the police observer negotiations -- A marriage in trouble? : donor-Palestinian cooperation in police training -- The politics of anti-terrorism aid -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the role of international donors in creating and



reforming the Palestinian police and security forces, beginning in the early aftermath of the Oslo Accords to the outbreak of the second Intifada, which brought most police reform efforts to a standstill. The author explores the challenges and dilemmas facing the donor countries when they strived to assist in building a police that was being without the framework of an independent state. Apart from providing unique insight into the problems of providing aid to police forces created by a national liberation organization in a wa