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Understanding Territorial Withdrawal - Rob Geist Pinfold

Understanding Territorial Withdrawal

Israeli Occupations and Exits
Buch | Hardcover
344 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-765885-7 (ISBN)
CHF 94,25 inkl. MwSt
From Ukraine to Afghanistan and beyond, occupations and exit dilemmas permeate contemporary geopolitics. However, the existing literature on territorial conflict rarely scrutinizes a pivotal, related question: what makes a state withdraw from an occupied territory, or entrench itself within it?

In Understanding Territorial Withdrawal, Rob Geist Pinfold addresses this research gap. He focuses primarily on Israel, a unique but important milieu that offers pertinent lessons for other states facing similar policy problems. As Pinfold demonstrates, occupiers choose to either perpetuate or abandon an occupation because of three factors: their relations with the occupied, interactions with third parties, and the occupier's domestic politics. He argues that each withdrawal is the culmination of a gradual process of policy re-assessment. Critically, it is a combination of local violence and international pressure that causes popular and elite opinion within the occupier to endorse an exit, rather than perpetuate the status quo. To affirm this pattern, Pinfold constructs a generalizable framework for understanding territorial withdrawal. He then applies this framework to multiple case studies, which include: Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula between 1974-1982; its "unilateral" withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000; and its "unilateral disengagement" from the Gaza Strip in 2005, as well as Israel's non-withdrawals from the West Bank and Golan Heights. Overall, Understanding Territorial Withdrawal delineates commonalities that manifested in each exit yet were absent in the cases of occupation without exit.

A powerful analysis of a central concern for the study of international security, territorial conflict, and the Arab-Israel conflict alike, this book provides a critical intervention that identifies why occupiers either retain, or leave, occupied territory.

Rob Geist Pinfold is a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Center Prague and a Lecturer in International Peace and Security at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College London and a Senior Fellow at the Herzl Center for Israel Studies at Charles University in Prague. Rob holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He is a scholar of international security whose research intersects the study of strategy and territorial conflict. A British-Israeli, he divides his time between the UK and Israel.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
I. The Framework and the Milieu
II. Exit as a Process: Israel's Withdrawal from the Sinai
III. Leaving 'Israel's Vietnam': Southern Lebanon
IV. Exit Without Agreement: The Unilateral Disenagement Plan
V. Occupation, Without Exit #1: The West Bank
VI. Occupation, Without Exit #2: The Golan Heights
VII. Occupation and Exit Beyond Israel: The US Leaves Hispaniola
Conclusions
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 b/w line drawings
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 237 x 162 mm
Gewicht 599 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-19-765885-7 / 0197658857
ISBN-13 978-0-19-765885-7 / 9780197658857
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