The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) [Hardcover]

Markus E. Bouillon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1850434433 | ISBN-13: 978-1850434436 | Publication Date: May 7, 2004 | Edition: First Edition

The Peace Business is a study of the evolution and consequences of business cooperation in the Middle East in the years of the peace process. Markus E. Bouillon examines how the engagement of entrepreneurs and businesspeople in the peace process, as well as how the nature of business ties between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians, failed to strengthen and advance peace in the Middle East. In this important contribution to the Israel-Palestine debate, he argues that private business interests undermined economic and political stability domestically and thus contributed to the failure of the peace process.

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"Markus Bouillon's book makes an important and original contribution to the literature on the Middle East peace process. It is based on extensive and imaginative research and it is packed with new and fascinating material. Bouillon places the behavior of the elites under an uncompromising lens. His work serves as a useful corrective to the conventional wisdom by highlighting the negative effects of the peace process for all but the elites in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories."--Avi Shlaim, Oxford University

"The first full-length, authoritative account of the various dimensions of business in the context of Arab-Israeli 'peace'...an empirically dense and nuanced analysis."--James Piscatori, Oxford University

About the Author

Markus E. Bouillon is currently working as a freelance political analyst, specializing in the Middle East and the Palestine-Israel conflict. In 2002, he gained his doctorate in international relations at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, where he worked under the supervision of Avi Shlaim.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris; First Edition edition (May 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1850434433
• ISBN-13: 978-1850434436
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,005,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best!, February 15, 2007

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This review is from: The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) (Hardcover)

Simply the Best review of the palestinian israeli relations in the last 10 years.
It takes a very refined and modern approach to the study of international relation, within the stream of neogramscian international relations and methodologically consistent with Critical Realist Philophy of science. From a sound and solid theroretical background he is able to give an extremely powerful account of the last 10 years of israeli palestinian relations.