INFORMATION

Name: The Transformation of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Middle East Peace Process

Author: Shu Meng

Publisher: Silk Road Publishing

Publishing Date: September 2024

ISBN：9789910947995

INTRODUCTION

This book focuses on the development and transformation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the development of the regional situation in the aftermath of the transformation. The study finds that, at the ideological level, the original Arab nationalist orientation of the Palestine Liberation Organization was gradually replaced by a Palestinian nationalist orientation, with an overall tendency towards conservative goals and moderate means. At the organizational level, the PLO's system of goals, departments and power has undergone significant changes. At the level of external policy, the PLO has gradually opened up and changed its attitude towards Israel, the United States and international organizations, reflecting a kind of “external adaptation” in the transition of the organization. At the level of internal policy, the PLO's expansion of representation, the co-opting of dissidents, and the focus on emerging issues in society represent an organizational “internal adaptation” to internal Palestinian divisions and pluralistic structures. Thus, this book argues that the PLO has undergone a profound ideological, organizational and internal/external policy transformation that has been comprehensive, specific and difficult. However, the process of transformation is not yet complete, and the Palestine Liberation Organization is still in the process of transformation and facing the constraints of many complex factors. On this basis, the book also analyzes the development and future of the Middle East peace process after the transformation of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Under the influence of the complex factors, even if the PLO succeeds in its transformation, the situation in the region still faces multiple challenges.

AUTHOR

Shu Meng, Ph.D. in Diplomacy, assistant researcher at the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)'s Middle East Studies Institute, editor of the journal Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, member of the Youth Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Jiu San Society, and member of the Board of Directors of the Shanghai Society of Women's Studies. Her main research fields are Middle East politics and Middle East women's studies. She graduated from SISU with a PhD in Diplomacy, and was awarded the Sino-Israeli Government Scholarship to participate in the joint PhD program at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and worked as a reporter in the Commentary Department of the English version of the Global Times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1  Analysis of theories related to organizational transformation and their applicability to the PLO

Chapter 2 The Oslo Accords and the Analysis of the Dynamics and Resistance of the PLO Transformation

Chapter 3  The PLO's Ideological Framework Transformation

Chapter 4  The PLO's Organizational Transformation

Chapter 5  The PLO's External Policy Transformation

Chapter 6  The PLO's Domestic Policy Transformation