Book by Nathan J. Brown analyzes the construction of Palestinian political institutions in the West Bank and Gaza following the Oslo Accords, examining how the Palestinian Authority built governance structures, legal systems, and bureaucratic capacity under Israeli occupation. Brown offers a nuanced assessment of Palestinian institution-building, identifying both real achievements and the authoritarian tendencies that developed within the PA.Recommended for political scientists and historians studying Palestinian Authority governance, Oslo-era institution-building, and the tension between Palestinian statehood aspirations and the realities of occupation in the West Bank and Gaza.
