Post-Colonial Settlement Strategy / / Ehud Eiran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Eiran, Ehud,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

Explores the motivations behind contemporary (post-1960) settlement projects into occupied territoriesSettlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nationals into a territory not under their sovereignty. Ehud Eiran explains why states launch settlement projects into occupied areas and introduces the international environment as an important enabling variable. By drawing comparisons between three such major projects – Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, Morocco in Western Sahara and Indonesia in East-Timor – Ehud Eiran classifies post-colonial settlement projects as a distinct cluster of cases that warrant a different analytical approach to traditional colonial studies.Built on a careful synthesis of existing principles in international relations theory and empirical research, the book advances a clearly formulated theoretical position on the launch of post-colonial settlement projects. The result yields a number of fresh insights into the relationship between conflict, territory and international norms.Key FeaturesExplains what motivates states to launch post-colonial settlement projects, against international trends and normsAnalyses three major post-colonial settlement projects (Israel, Morocco, Indonesia): one of the first books to place these projects in a comparative perspectiveAlso analyses three cases where states considered settlements but did not launch projects: India in Goa, Libya in Chad and Mauritania in Western SaharaArgues that post-colonial settlement projects should be treated as a distinct category of cases, breaking with current work that views them as traditional colonial projects

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THEORY -- 3 THE ISRAELI SETTLEMENT PROJECT IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA (1967–77) -- 4 THE MOROCCAN SETTLEMENT PROJECT IN WESTERN SAHARA (1975–) AND THE INDONESIAN SETTLEMENT PROJECT IN EAST TIMOR (1975–99) -- 5 NEGATIVE CASES: INDIA IN GOA, LIBYA IN CHAD AND MAURITANIA IN WESTERN SAHARA -- 6 CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX