Description
This study was written against the backdrop that since the outbreak of the second Intifada in 2000, numerous calls for a comprehensive reform of Palestinian institutions have been made, with reform of the Palestinian security sector being a key factor. The book examines Palestinian security sector reform in the period from September 2000 until October 2004, marked by renewed Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the devastation of the PA, and external pressure to overhaul the remaining Palestinian governing institutions. The paper looks at and analyses the actual contents and objectives of security sector reform in the Palestinian context, the political actors engaged in the reform process, their motivations, as well as the political and operational problems associated with reshaping the Palestinian security institutions. Some light is also shed on the more general ob¬stacles that security sector reform faces in the context of state formation.
