Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization: how does the economic cooperation occur between two nations in conflict?
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https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v9i2.73010Abstract
The present work has as general objective to analyze how the cooperation between two nations in conflict works, under an anarchic International System, with focus on the economic cooperation between Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Through the use of qualitative exploratory methodology, the research has as specific objectives: (I) to expose the logic of cooperation under anarchy, based mainly on the works of Axelrod and Keohane (1985) and Oye (1985), and; (II) specifically to examine the Paris Protocol (1994), an important economic agreement signed between the parties, in order to highlight the general objective of this work. Thus, the problem-question can be characterized as: is it possible to have economic cooperation, with significant absolute gains, between two nations in conflict? Therefore, the hypothesis is that even if there is an agreement, between two conflicting nations, to seek greater economic approximation, this cooperation is manifested as asymmetrical and with no significant absolute gains visible to one side. Thus, it is concluded that even inserted in an anarchic International System, two nations can either go to war or seek cooperation, so that when opting for cooperation, what is observed is the existence of a game of those who lose less in relation to the other, in addition to settling the conflict, since there are no full absolute gains for both sides, but relative gains.
Keywords: Economic cooperation; Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Anarchic International System.
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