Building a successful Palestinian state / The RAND Palestinian State Study Team.

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Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2007Description: xliv, 407 pages : illustrations (some colored), maps ; 26 cmContent type:

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0833035320 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0833040502 (electronic bk.)
9780833035325 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780833040503 (electronic bk.)

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DS119.76 .B85 2007

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Contents:

Introduction -- Defining "success" -- Conditions for success -- Governance -- The relationship between state legitimacy and good governance -- Internal security -- Building a successful Palestinian state -- Demography -- The Palestinian population and its post-1948 Diaspora -- Economics -- The Palestinian economy -- Major challenges and issues -- Water -- Water, agriculture, and energy in the Middle East -- Health -- What is a successful health system? -- Education -- What is a successful education system in the 21st century? -- Conclusions -- Requirements for success -- State founding -- State enabling -- State maturation -- Options for facilitating success.

Summary: The United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations-along with Israel and the Palestinian Authority-all officially support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. This study focuses on a single analytical question: How can an independent Palestinian state, if created, be made successful? This book, a collaboration between two units of the RAND Corporation--RAND Health and the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy--examines what it will take to put the new state on the road to stability and economic, political, and social prosperity over the first decade of its independence. The authors examine options for strengthening the governance of the new state and the structures and processes that will ensure its public safety and security. They describe approaches for promoting the state's economic development, access to safe and adequate supplies of water, health and health care, and education, identifying ways that leverage Palestine's many strengths and address the many challenges a new state will face. Finally, the authors estimate the investment required over the first ten years of statehood to help ensure security, build infrastructure, and facilitate the success of the new state.

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"Rand Palestinian State Study Team."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-378) and index.

The United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations-along with Israel and the Palestinian Authority-all officially support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. This study focuses on a single analytical question: How can an independent Palestinian state, if created, be made successful? This book, a collaboration between two units of the RAND Corporation--RAND Health and the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy--examines what it will take to put the new state on the road to stability and economic, political, and social prosperity over the first decade of its independence. The authors examine options for strengthening the governance of the new state and the structures and processes that will ensure its public safety and security. They describe approaches for promoting the state's economic development, access to safe and adequate supplies of water, health and health care, and education, identifying ways that leverage Palestine's many strengths and address the many challenges a new state will face. Finally, the authors estimate the investment required over the first ten years of statehood to help ensure security, build infrastructure, and facilitate the success of the new state.

Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.