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020			_a9781503614185
040			_cNVIC
100	1		_aLori Allen
245	1	2	_aA History of False Hope: _bInvestigative Commissions in Palestine
264		1	_aStanford: _bStanford University Press, _c2020
300			_a408 p., _c26 cm
520			_a"A History of False Hope analyzes the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the history of international investigative commission (from the 1919 King-Crane Commission through to the 2009 UN Goldstone Commission) and shows how these commissions function as a liberal device of colonialism, even into the present day. Despite their appearance as mechanisms of equitable legal policy based on fact and fairness, these commissions, and the international law that motivates them, ultimately induce Palestinians to participate in a global governance system that maintains an oppressive hierarchy"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aInternational commissions _y21st century _zPalestine
650			_aGlobal governance _y21st century _zPalestine
650			_aInternational law _y21st century _zPalestine
650			_aUN Missions _y21st century _zPalestine
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