The failure of the Middle East peace process? : a comparative analysis of peace implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa / edited by Guy Ben-Porat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Israeli flags flying alongside Belfast's apartheid walls: a new era of comparisons and connections / Adrian Guelke -- The state-to-nation balance: a key to explaining difficulties in implementing peace: the Israeli-Palestinian case / Benjamin Miller -- Consociational theory and peace agreements in pluri-national places: Northern Ireland and other cases / John McGarry, Brendan O'Leary -- Ending apartheid: the relevance of consociationalism / Rupert Taylor -- Realism, liberalism, and the collapse of the Oslo process: inherently flawed or flawed implementation? / Jonathan Rynhold -- Sponsors or spoilers: diasporas and peace processes in the homeland / Raviv Schwartz -- People 's diplomacy and people's vigilantism: Israeli grassroots activism 1993-2003 / Tamar Hermann -- Passive reconciliation in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Rafi Nets-Zehngut -- Identity shift in settlement processes: the Northern Ireland case / Jennifer Todd -- Who was afraid of decolonization? / Yoav Peled -- Mandela in Palestine: peacemaking in divided societies / Heribert Adam.

"This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace by focusing on the different aspects of implementation and of the causes of the success or failure of peace processes. While in the early 1990s the conflicts/peace processes in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine shared commonalities, a decade later it is all but obvious that they have followed different trajectories and reached different outcomes. This edited volume offers different explanations for the successes and failures of the three processes and provides historical and comparative perspectives regarding their contemporary realities."--Publisher description.

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