Nationalism (Israel and Palestine)

Question 1

Realist view of order

Answer 1

Disorder arises when there is not a stable balance of power

Question 2

Neoliberal view of order

Answer 2

Disorder arises when states are not liberal and hence do not fit within the international system

Question 3

Brubaker and Laitin

Answer 3

Violence too regularly accredited to being a product of ethnic or nationalist tensions. In many cases the roots are much more complex than this. No longer benefit to putting ideological cold war slant on things

Question 4

Smith

Answer 4

Identity and insecurity a “mutually constitutive process”

Question 5

Rationalist criticism of ethnic violence accounts

Answer 5

Rationalist argument says that emotional responses are very idiosyncratic and randomly distributed, hence do not have an effect at the aggregate level of society.

Question 6

Realist criticism of nationailsm

Answer 6

(HURREL) nationalism encourages the existence of weak and unviable states, leads to (unstable) emotions being involved in international policy

Question 7

Two alternative conceptions of international society

Answer 7

 Gesellschaft: is an association held together by self-interest (common interests)
 Gemeinschaft: is an association held together by a more complete range of collective values and norms

Question 8

Zionism

Answer 8

• ethnic, exclusive, authoritarian
• Use of history. Cement Israel as legitimate. Inherent link with military force and the state –> being undermined now by revisionist scholars

Question 9

Conventional view of Arab nationalism

Answer 9

Arab nationalism a reaction to colonialism and imperial occupation – no historical memories of a Palestinian identity. Function of the forced separation of Palestine from Syria and the struggle with Zionism.
• Pappe: Nationalism natural - development of nationalism the penultimate stage in process of becoming “modern”.

Question 10

Criticism and alternative to conventional view of Arab nationalism

Answer 10

Not the case that Palestinian nationalism solely a response to Zionism. Old and wealthy families recognised that they would be able to consolidate more power as Palestinian nationalists than as Arab nationalists (who would naturally be lead by Syrians)

Question 11

Nationalism and disorder (Arabs)

Answer 11

o Charles: 1967 War came as much from Arab nationalist debates and rivalries as from direct Arab-Israeli hostilities

Question 12

Nationalism and distorder (Israelis)

Answer 12

o Two state solution no longer relevant or viable. Purpouseful fragmentation (buntustantization) between the West bank and Gaza in order to leave Palestine in a position where 2 state solution not possible. Purpouseless violence.