ABOUT BOOK

The existing literature on state-building has focused mainly on ~post-conflict cases and ‘conventional’ examples of statehood, ~without taking into consideration the particularities of states that ~remain internally and/or externally contested. The EU’s engagement ~in Palestinian state-building through the deployment of ~EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah has generated various types of ~unintended consequences: anticipated and unanticipated, positive ~and negative, desirable and undesirable, some of which fulfill and ~some of which frustrate the initial intention. These have important ~reverberations for the EU’s conflict resolution strategies in Israel ~and Palestine, the most important being the strengthening of ~power imbalances and the enforcement of the status quo.