{"product_id":"palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited-capital-and-state-building-in-the-west-bank-9781478014096","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494517707026,"sku":"9781478014096","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3e07c9f-b29c-4587-ad3b-423745f9bce2.jpg?v=1730666090","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited-capital-and-state-building-in-the-west-bank-9781478014096","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}