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The Untapped Potential

In: The Economic Diplomacy of Peace in the Middle East

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  • Libby Lahar

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The Paris Protocol to the 1993 Oslo I Peace Accord aimed to promote economic development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by enhancing economic interdependence, as the way forward to overcome the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and achieve a lasting peace. Yet, greater economic (inter)dependency coincided with higher conflict intensity despite the numerous initiatives, roadmaps, plans, incentives, as well as development and aid assistance in the decades following the Oslo I accord. This chapter presents the economic peace puzzle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, taking into account that it is an intractable modern conflict. Intractable conflicts are often identity-based, deep-rooted conflicts. In their modern form, they take an asymmetric shape, either in the form of guerrilla warfare, insurgency, civil war, or intrastate conflict, involving both territorial disputes and contested statehood. The intractable modern conflict — the identity-based, deep-rooted, asymmetric conflict carries unique characteristics that shape its modes of negotiation, particularly through a peace process, with special attention given to the role of spoilers and back-channel negotiations.

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  • Libby Lahar, 2026. "The Untapped Potential," Springer Books, in: The Economic Diplomacy of Peace in the Middle East, chapter 0, pages 1-21, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-93991-4_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93991-4_1
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