Peace-building through State-building. EU Strategies towards the Palestinian Territories and the Role of Democracy

Inhaltsverzeichnis (Table of Contents)

• Introductory Part
• ABSTRACT
• Structure and Method
• Background of International Peace-building in Palestine
• The Oslo Peace Process
• The Post-Oslo Period
• Domestic Frictions
• The Conflict Today
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
• The State
• The Concept of the State
• Peace
• Negative and Positive Peace
• Peace-building and State-building: Dependent on Each Other?
• Peace-building
• State-building
• Peace-building through State-building Paradigm
• Democracy and Peace: A Causal Relationship?
• Democracy
• Democratization
• Democratic Peace Paradigm
• Evaluation of Theoretical Framework
• Theoretical Part
• THE EU's CONCEPTION OF DEMOCRACY PROMOTION
• Democratization and Democracy in primary EU sources
• Classification
• PALESTINE AND THE EU
• Characterizing the OPT
• Theoretical Foundations of EU Democracy Promotion in the OPT
• Overview: EU Partnership with Palestine
• Instruments
• Quartet
• Supranational Policies
• Intergovernmental Policies
• Problematic Areas
• Focus: Security Sector
• Focus: Palestinian Domestic Split
• The Occupation and EU-Israeli relations
• Concluding Part
• RESUMEE

Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte (Objectives and Key Themes)

This paper examines the EU's role in promoting democracy and peace-building in the Palestinian Territories. It analyzes the EU's strategies and approaches to state-building and democratization in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• The EU's conception of democracy promotion
• The EU's partnership with Palestine
• The role of democracy in peace-building
• The challenges of state-building in the Palestinian Territories
• The impact of the Israeli occupation on the EU's efforts

Zusammenfassung der Kapitel (Chapter Summaries)

The introductory part provides an overview of the research topic and its methodology. It explores the historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of the Oslo Peace Process in shaping the current situation. The theoretical part delves into the concepts of state, peace, peace-building, and democracy, examining their interrelationships and exploring the different paradigms of peace-building and democratization. The empirical part focuses on the EU's conception of democracy promotion and its strategies in the Palestinian Territories. It analyzes the EU's instruments, partnerships, and challenges in promoting democracy and state-building in the context of the conflict.

Schlüsselwörter (Keywords)

The main keywords and focus topics of the text include democracy promotion, peace-building, state-building, the EU, Palestine, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Oslo Peace Process, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Quartet, and EU-Israeli relations. The paper also examines the theoretical frameworks of the democratic peace paradigm and the peace-building through state-building paradigm.