Armed struggle and the search for state : the Palestinian national movement, 1949-1993 / / Yezid Sayigh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960381003321
• Autore: Ṣāyigh Yazīd
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 9780191513541; 0191513547
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xxxiv, 953 p. : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 956.9405
• Soggetti: Palestinian Arabs - Politics and government; Nationalism - Palestine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington, D.C."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [843]-912) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Glossary of Arabic Terms -- Maps -- Genealogical Diagram -- Introduction: A Historical Framework -- I. Searching for Palestine, 1949-1966 -- 1. Why Palestinian Nationalism? The Social, Economic, and Political Context after 1948 -- 2. Palestinians in Arab Uniform -- 3. Rebirth of the Palestinian National Movement -- 4. The Watershed -- 5. Challenges of the Armed Struggle -- II. Years of Revolution, 1967-1972 -- 6. Transforming Defeat into Opportunity -- 7. Carving out the Guerrilla Sanctuary -- 8. Guerrilla War in Theory and Practice -- 9. The Making of the Palestinian Political System -- 10. Dual Power -- 11. End of a Myth -- 12. Interregnum -- III. The State-in-Exile, 1973-1982 -- 13. At the Crossroads -- 14. The Lebanese Crisis -- 15. The Struggle for Lebanon -- 16. Ambition Frustrated, Sanctuary Preserved -- 17. A Ceasefire, Not a Truce -- 18. Rearguard Action -- 19. The 'Fakhani Republic' -- 20. Extending the State-in-Exile or Capturing It? -- 21. No Lull before the Storm -- 22. The Lebanon War -- IV. Squaring the Circle: Statehood into Autonomy, 1983-1993 -- 23. Assaulting the State-in-Exile from Within -- 24. Struggle Within, Struggle Without -- 25. Intifada to the Rescue -- 26. The Road to Oslo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Based on unprecedented access to PLO archives and personnel, this groundbreaking new study represents the definitive history of the Palestinian national movement. Spanning the 45 years from the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993, it sheds radical new light on the history of the Middle East in the last half of the twentieth century.