{"product_id":"palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited-capital-and-state-building-in-the-west-bank","title":"Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited by Kareem Rabie","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank by Kareem Rabie\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is \u003cem\u003e“throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIn this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad's 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.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRabie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis approach reflected the belief that a \u003cstrong\u003ethriving private economy\u003c\/strong\u003e would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet, as Rabie contends, \u003cstrong\u003ethese investment-based policies have maintained the status quo\u003c\/strong\u003e of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50292666368315,"sku":"1478014091","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/6106903482714.jpg?v=1747226098","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited-capital-and-state-building-in-the-west-bank","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}