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State-building in Palestine went through several stages and took many years until the current situation, with a clear pattern of duality processes. Two parallel processes of state-building have taken place in the Palestinian national movement. On the one hand, Arafat tightened his control of the military, political, economic, social, and cultural organs of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). On the other hand, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were characterized by an advanced process of pluralism and acceptance of the rules of democratic decision-making. This duality is in the essence of any developments in the future that are related to the political institutionalization of the Palestinian entity.
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Ghanem, A. (2017). Historical Background of the State-Building Process in Palestine. In: Gürbey, G., Hofmann, S., Ibrahim Seyder, F. (eds) Between State and Non-State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60181-0_3
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