NPF Cycle One Fellows and Projects
Toufic Haddad: Neoliberal State-Building in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Abstract: This paper will interrogate the normative developmental model of state-building, and its preference for private sector growth, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It will historically situate and assess recent protests against the Fayyad government. It will argue that the region's history since the peace process needs to be read in terms of understanding the role that neoliberal conceptualizations of conflict resolution and state-building have played in not only sustaining the conflict, but actively deepening it.
Toufic Haddad is a PhD candidate in Development at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, researching the political economy of neoliberal approaches to conflict resolution and state building in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. He is the co-author and editor of Between the Lines: Readings in Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S. ‘War on Terror’ (Haymarket Books, 2007) and Towards a New Internationalism: Readings in Globalization, the Global Justice Movement and Palestinian Liberation (Muwatin: Ramallah 2006). His writings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been featured in several book chapters and publications including The National, Al Jazeera English (web), the Journal of Palestine Studies, Monthly Review Zine, Znet, Counterpunch, Jadaliyya, Al-Akhbar (English), and the International Socialist Review among others.
