The West Bank and Gaza: Similar or Different Governance?

Dr. Yezid Sayigh
Professor of Middle East Studies, King's College London

19 March 2010



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How have two distinct systems of government evolved in the West Bank and Gaza? What similarities and differences are there between the two? How have they made institutional improvements and has this effected the balance between security and liberty? How sustainable and vulnerable are these state-like systems given their significant dependence on external capital? Join us for a discussion on these questions and more.

Yezid Sayigh is Professor of Middle East Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is currently on leave as a Visiting Scholar at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. He was an adviser and negotiator in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks in 1991-1994, and has provided consultancy assistance on Palestinian Authority reform and on the Palestinian-Israeli ‘permanent status’ negotiations since 1998. He is the author of Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993, and most recently of Fixing Broken Windows: Security Sector Reform in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen, Carnegie Paper, October 2009.

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