Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador

The most striking shortcoming of Part IV is that the authors do not cull from the literature published over the last decade some of the most substantial and sophisticated analyses of what was happening within Palestinian society from 1993 to 2003. The “Palestinian people” are marginalized in this more recent history, in favor of Palestinian (and Israeli) leaders and key decision-makers. While the authors provide an adequate account of “what happened,” their explanations for “why” pale in comparison to the earlier sections of the book, and the footnotes of Part IV are not a comprehensive guide to “essential reading.”