{"product_id":"palestine-is-throwing-a-party-kareem-rabie-9781478011958","title":"Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank","description":"In 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. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is \"throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.\" In 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. Rabie 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. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kareem Rabie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478011955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478011958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Kareem Rabie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943017480447,"sku":"9781478011958","price":102.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_717268fb-1fc5-4d1c-822a-99254d2baa78.jpg?v=1681495732","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/palestine-is-throwing-a-party-kareem-rabie-9781478011958","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}