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Becoming A State: Zionist And Palestinian Movements For National Liberation, Martin S. Widzer
Becoming A State: Zionist And Palestinian Movements For National Liberation, Martin S. Widzer
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This study examines the road to statehood for the Zionist and Palestinian movements. There are three components which frame this investigation: 1. social movements and the practices in which they engage that are aimed at establishing statehood for a people; 2. distinctive configurations of the international system and the manner in which both the material and ideational foundations of that system pulls units towards conformity and predictable behavior; and finally, 3. the role of agency, that is, the way in which instrumentally rational individuals attempt to push the structure in which they are embedded towards a configuration that is better …