The Political Economy of Peace Processes
This research seeks to develop a historical materialist perspective on peace processes. This includes analysis of issues such as:
- the impacts of economic globalisation and liberalisation on peace processes
- the role of business actors and interests in peace processes
- the impacts of global and local socio-economic change (e.g. urbanisation, employment, literacy, diasporas) on peace processes
- peace processes as hegemonic strategies and inter-elite accommodations
- the comparative analysis of peace processes from a historical materialist perspective
Currently this work focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian and India-Pakistan peace processes. I regularly undertake fieldwork in Israel, the Occupied Territories, India and Pakistan.
During 2005-6, I was recipient of an ESRC New Security Challenges grant on The Political Economy of the Israeli-Palestinian and Indo-Pak Peace Processes (Award: Res-228-25-0010). Outputs from this project are forthcoming.
This research draws upon my earlier research on Israeli-Palestinian water politics, which utilised and developed a historical materialist approach to the analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian ‘Oslo’ peace process.
Publications on Peace Processes
Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (London: IB Tauris, 2003).
“Governance and resistance in Palestine: simulations, confrontations, sumoud,” in Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy and Jan Selby (eds.), Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance (London: Palgrave, 2003), pp. 118-34.
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