The EU, Hamas and the 2006 Palestinian elections : a performance in politics / Catherine Charrett.

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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Catherine Charrett in a Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. The author completed a PhD in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia. The author received an Independent Social Research Foundation Research Fellowship for an interdisciplinary approach to researching politically and socially salient topics. The author has produced a performance piece on the topic of this book entitled: "Politics in Drag: Sipping Toffee with Hamas in Brussels," which can be viewed through the Review of International Studies. This research has also been published with the European Journal of International Relations.

This book addresses how institutional and diplomatic rituals shaped the European Union's sanction of Hamas after the latter's success in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. Through a lens of performance and performativity it explains how socialisation and the duress of performative rituals shapes agency and prevents the possibility of taking risks or being creative with policy initiatives when confronted with difficult decisions. Interviews with senior Hamas representatives, EU bureaucrats, members of the European External Action Service, and electoral observers from Palestine and Europe, in addition to ethnographic research in Gaza and in Brussels, recreate the details of the failed diplomacy between Hamas and the EU. The book explores the political discourses that shape the contemporary recognition of Hamas, and presents Hamas's response to being treated as a terrorist movement. Interrogating the bureaucratic and professional pressures that shape the political agency of EU diplomats and civil servants, it advances queer and postcolonial understandings of political encounters. The juxtaposition of empirical investigation with performance art and everyday experiences will appeal to students of International Relations, the Middle-East, Area Studies, Foreign Policy and Analysis.

Print version: Charrett, Catherine. Hamas, the EU and the Palestinian elections. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019

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August 08, 2024

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