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Strömbom on EU between democratic principles and expansionist Israeli ideals

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article ”The two-state impasse in Israel/Palestine – The EU caught between egalitarian norms and expansionist realpolitik”, in Frontiers in Political Science.

Black and white photo of Lisa Strömbom. Photo.
Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, Department of Political Science, Lund University.

For many years, international actors have viewed a two-state solution based on democratic rights for both peoples in their respective nation-state as the silver-bullet that can solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This, however, stands in stark contrast to the ever-growing asymmetry in Israeli-Palestinian relations with creeping de facto annexation of large parts of the West Bank, Gaza under siege and a growing Israeli disinterest in negotiations where expansionist Israeli ideals tend to override democratic ones.

The over-arching aim of this article is to understand how the EU relates to this paradox and what possible solutions, if any, its representatives envisions for resolving it.

Link to the article (open access): https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1049938

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