Global Governance and Palestine: Negating the Palestinian Right to Self-Determination

Bana Abu Zuluf and Alice Panepinto

Chapter 16 in Research Handbook on Global Governance, 2025, pp 355-383 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Colonialism's core feature of maintaining Indigenous populations in subalternity persists in Palestine through international law and global governance. This chapter traces Palestine's subjugation from British colonialism (1917–48) and the League of Nations to the UN's contemporary role and Israel's ongoing colonisation since 1948. It critiques the UN's contradictory governance of Palestine, oscillating between humanitarian promises and legal mechanisms that sustain dispossession. Following the Oslo Accords (1993–95), Israeli control was subcontracted to the Palestinian Authority, exacerbating disparities through neoliberal state-building supported by global governance actors. The chapter challenges the bilateral conflict narrative, emphasising the multilateral governance framework that imposes subalternity on Palestinians. Structured in two parts, it examines global governance from Ottoman rule to partition and themes of subalternity post-1948, illustrating how colonial mindsets persist, enabling settler colonialism, dominance and apartheid in Palestine through the UN and international law.

Keywords: Indigenous population; Colonialism; Palestinian rights; Self-determination; Global governance; Subalternity; Dominance; Apartheid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789906325
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