Fatah and the Politics of Violence: The Institutionalization of a Popular Struggle - Hardcover

"...a unique contribution to both fields of political science and Middle Eastern politics..." -- Professor Abraham Ben-Zvi, Department of Government, Georgetown University, Washington DC. "...a unique book whose relevance goes beyond its empirical setting... ...an ingeniously clever volume." -- Samuel B. Bacharach, McKelvey-Grant Professor of Labor-Management Relations; Director, Institute for Workplace Studies; Director, Smithers Institute, Cornell University. "...a welcome application of the analytical tools of social science..." -- Professor Yezid Sayigh, Chair in Middle East Studies, Department of War Studies, Kings College London.

Explores the relations between the Fatah organisation and its national constituency; Documents the rise of Fatah in Palestinian society; Provides a comprehensive history of Fatah and the political history of the Palestinian National Movement, from 1959 through to the Second Intifada in 2000; Analyses the types of struggle that Fatah strategically adopts.