Non-US Legal Systems, Emigration & Immigration, Comparative Politics, Government 

"Settlers feature in many protracted territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts around the world. Explaining the dynamics of the politics of settlers in contested territories in several contemporary cases, this book illuminates how settler-related conflicts emerge, evolve, and are significantly more difficult to resolve than other disputes. Written by country experts, chapters consider Israel and the West Bank, Arab settlers in Kirkuk, Moroccan settlers in Western Sahara, settlers from Fascist Italy in North Africa, Turkish settlers in Cyprus, Indonesian settlers in East Timor, and Sinhalese settlers in Sri Lanka. Addressing four common topics--right-sizing the state, mobilization and violence, the framing process, and legal principles versus pragmatism--the cases taken together raise interrelated questions about the role of settlers in conflicts in contested territory. Then looking beyond the similar characteristics, these cases also illuminate key differences in levels of settler mobilization and the impact these differences can have on peace processes to help explain different outcomes of settler-related conflicts. Finally, cases investigate the causes of settler mobilization and identify relevant conflict resolution mechanisms."--Publisher's website. 

Contents:
Settlers and conflict over contested territories / Oded Haklai and Neophytos Loizides -- The decisive path of state indecisiveness : Israeli settlers in the West Bank in comparative perspective / Oded Haklai -- Moroccan settlers in Western Sahara : colonists or fifth column? / Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes -- Settlement, sovereignty, and social engineering : fascist settlement policy between nation and empire / Roberta Pergher -- The Indonesian settlement project in East Timor / Ehud Eiran -- Settlers and state-building : the Kirkuk case / Denise Natali -- Settlers, immigrants, colonists : the three layers of settler-induced conflict in Sri Lanka / Evangelos Liaras -- Settlers, mobilization and displacement in Cyprus : antinomies of ethnic conflict and immigration politics / Neophytos Loizides -- Conclusion : the political dynamics of settlement projects : the central state-settler-native triangle / Ian S. Lustick. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.