This volume offers a series of focused analyses of various aspects of the peace
process. This interdisciplinary book includes insights developed by scholars in
such diverse disciplines as anthropology, economics, history, law, political
science, social psychology, and international relations. Although the book is
strongest in dealing with Israel's political behavior, it also focuses
specifically on the Palestinians and on Jordan. The contributors combine the
perspective of the last few years; the insights of a variety of social science
disciplines, making the complexity of the Middle East situation more manageable
and penetrable; and offer a commitment to an analysis which is relatively
detached from everyday politics and non-normative in