Aborted state?
Subtitle: the UN initiative and new Palestinian junctures
By: editors, Noura Erakat, Mouin Rabbani ; contributors, Richard Falk [and others]
Publisher: Tadween Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781939067043
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs; Politics and government; United Nations and non-member nations; Self-determination, National; International status; Arab-Israeli conflict; International law; Palestine; Palestinians; United Nations; Self-determination; Recognition of states; Government; Politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Richard Falk; title: 1. National liberation struggles. On the possible recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations / Rashid Khalidi; title: Can the Palestinian leadership pave the way from statehood to independence? / Noura Erakat; title: Palestinian options at the United Nations / Camille Mansour; title: Going to the United Nations, sanctions, and the tick-tock of the Palestinian Spring / Raja Khalidi; title: Palestine at the UN, again / O.I.L. editors ; Noura Erakat [and others]; title: Abbas's next move / Mouin Rabbani; title: Is there a Palestinian strategy? / Salim Tamari; title: 2. International law and statehood. Occupation law and the one-state reality / Darryl Li; title: Roundtable on occupation law: part of the conflict or part of the solution? / Noura Erakat [and others]; title: The Palestinian statehood strategy in the United Nations: lessons from Namibia / Susan Akram; title: ICC rejects Palestine bid / Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; title: Imagining justice beyond the ICC / Samar Al-Bulushi; title: Israel and Palestine: international law updates / Sharon Weill; title: 3. US foreign policy. Obama's Palestine problem, and ours / Anthony Alessandrini; title: United States should step aside as Mideast broker / Mouin Rabbani; title: An apocalyptic air of approaching peril: Zionism at the United Nations / Sherene Seikaly; title: 4. Representation. Roundtable on Palestinian diaspora and representation / Naseer Aruri [and others]; title: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Legal opinion on Palestinian statehood bid / Guy S. Goodwin-Gill; title: John Quigley Critique of Goodwin-Gill legal opinion on Palestine statehood bid / John Quigley; title: A note on the Palestinian diplomatic initiative at the United Nations / a group of Palestinians; title: Statement by Palestinian Youth Movement on the September 2011 declaration of statehood / Palestinian Youth Movement; title: US Palestinian Community Network's Response to the Palestinian Authority September statehood bid / US Palestinian Community Network; title: BNC reiterates its position on September / BDS National Committee; title: Beyond sterile negotiations: looking for a leadership with a strategy / Noura Erakat; title: 5. Back at the UN again 2012. Statehood bid one year later: no state, no bid, no freedom / Noura Erakat; title: Quick thoughts on the significance of the November 2012 Palestine UN bid / Noura Erakat; title: More quick thoughts on Palestine at the United Nations / Mouin Rabbani; title: Citizenship and the new "State of Palestine" / Lauren Banko; title: The Palestinian Authority, UNESCO, and the illusion of triumph / Ryvka Barnard; title: Palestine at the United Nations? / Mouin Rabbani; title: Colonial planning of my grandfather's hilltop / Dana Erekat; title: Conclusion / Nadia Hijab.