Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza

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"In a major study that moves between path-breaking theorizing and analysis that is relevant to today's headlines, the author examines the process by which states expand and contract. . . . He develops a useful model of state expansion and contraction, focusing on how the issue of incorporating outlying territories is dealt with in the political arena. . . . While written before the recent Israeli-PLO agreement, this book has been made more, not less, timely by events that could only be guessed at when the author was writing this stimulating, often difficult, but ultimately very rewarding study."--Foreign Affairs Contents List of Figures Preface Part I. The Changing Shape of States 1. Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Disengagement or Incorporation? 2. Thresholds of State-Building and State Contraction Part II. Wars of Position and the Fate of Hegemonic Projects 3. Becoming Problematic: Breakdown of a Hegemonic Conception of Ireland 4. Where and What Is France? Three Failures of Hegemonic Construction 5. Patterns of Hegemonic Change: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria Part III. State Contraction and the Regime Threshold in Britain and France 6. The Irish Question in British Polities, 1886-1932 7. The Algerian Question in French Polities, 1955—1962 8. Regimes at Risk: Resealing the Irish and Algerian Questions in Rritain and France Part IV. Applications to Israel and Other Cases 9. Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Tracing the Status of a Changing Relationship 10. Hegemonic Failure and Regime Crisis in Israel 11. A Theory of States and Territories: Extensions and Implications Abbreviations Appendix Notes Index