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Book Summary
What do supporters of Hamas and radical religious Israeli settlers have to do
with the international peace process, other than providing an excuse for its
failure? High-level diplomatic negotiators and grassroots peace activists blame
religious extremists for acting as spoilers of rational negotiation, and have
often attempted to neutralize, co-opt, or marginalize them. In Producing
Spoilers Joyce Dalsheim explores the problem of stalled peacemaking by looking
at "spoilers" not as the cause, but as a symptom of systemic malfunctions within
the concept of the nation state itself, and the secular constructs of
historicism that support it. Spoilers are generated as internal enemies in the
course of conflict, and
ISBN-13
9780199944422
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Publishing Date
2014-08-01
Total Pages
256
Producing Spoilers: Peacemaking and the Production of Enmity in a Secular Age
What do supporters of Hamas and radical religious Israeli settlers have to do
with the international peace process, other than providing an excuse for its
failure? High-level diplomatic negotiators and grassroots peace activists blame
religious extremists for acting as spoilers of rational negotiation, and have
often attempted to neutralize, co-opt, or marginalize them. In Producing
Spoilers Joyce Dalsheim explores the problem of stalled peacemaking by looking
at "spoilers" not as the cause, but as a symptom of systemic malfunctions within
the concept of the nation state itself, and the secular constructs of
historicism that support it. Spoilers are generated as internal enemies in the
course of conflict, and