Between Cohesion and Fragmentation: Internal Influences on Strategy in the Palestinian National Movement

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What brings some self-determination movements to use violent forms of protest and others nonviolent forms? What causes a movement to use violence on some occasions but not others? Conventional explanations are insufficient because they tend to view movements as unitary actors. By contrast, Pearlman argues that a movement’s degree of internal political cohesion systematically affects the strategies that it uses. Her research demonstrates this argument throughout the history of the Palestinian national movement from 1920-2006. This presentation will offer a sample of her empirical analysis by comparing the first and second Palestinian Intifadas.

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