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This collection of thirteen essays explains and analyzes the conflict between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Authority over the granting of sovereignty to Palestinians from the point of view of international law. The dispute--emotional, so far intractable, often violent--is of global, not merely Middle Eastern concern. The essays cover two general topics: the political nature of the conflict and the economic issues. The collection includes eight respected contributions previously published and five newly written essays. The contributors represent a range of political alignments and differing perspectives, providing the widest possible scope for understanding the issues and beliefs relating to the conflict. Includes bibliography and index.
'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them. Having achieved nothing in life, Arthur Friedland is tricked on stage by a hypnotist and told to change everything. After he abandons his three young sons, they grow up to be a faithless priest, a broke financier and a forger. Each of them cultivates absence. One will be lost to it. A novel about the game of fate and the fetters of family, F never stops questioning, exploring and teasing at every twist and turn of its Rubik's Cube-like narrative. **Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015**
Kurztext Wahrend quantitatives Material uber die okonomische Situation in Palastina seit langem erhoben wurde, fehlen Studien, die sich mit Unternehmerpersonlichkeiten und der sozialen Einbettung unternehmerischen Handelns befassen, bislang vollig. Diese Lucke wird durch die vorliegende Arbeit geschlossen. Basierend auf ausgedehnten Feldstudien und Interviews werden Leitbilder und Konfliktfelder unternehmerischen Handelns in den Kontext der sich seit 1967 standig andernden Rahmenbedingungen gestellt. 'Dichte' Beschreibungen, in denen analytische Reflexionen eng mit der Perspektive der Handelnden verschrankt sind, vermitteln ein facettenreiches Bild und liefern so einen Beitrag zum immer wichtiger werdenden Problemfeld fremdkulturellen Verstehens.