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EU-Palestinian Security Cooperation after Oslo: Enforcing Borders, Interdependence and Existing Power Imbalance

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Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations

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Debates on security and borders are inherently interlinked, as the former is often the determining factor behind closed or open borders. As argued in the introductory chapter, ‘borders are institutions that govern the extent of inclusion and exclusion between different areas’ (Del Sarto, Chapter 1 of this volume) and security is one of the factors that determine that extent. This is particularly true in the Israeli-Palestinian case, where security and borders are considered to be the most crucial out of the five ‘core’ issues that need to be addressed for a possible resolution of the conflict.1 Recently, for example, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that Israel could never return to the 1967 borders because those would be ‘indefensible’ in security terms for Israel (The Guardian, 2011). He thus explicitly admitted that the realities created because of the change of borders from 1967 onwards (with the settlement building) also have serious security implications which cannot be neglected.

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Bouris, D. (2015). EU-Palestinian Security Cooperation after Oslo: Enforcing Borders, Interdependence and Existing Power Imbalance. In: Del Sarto, R.A. (eds) Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504142_2

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