Explores the motivations behind contemporary (post-1960) settlement projects into occupied territories Settlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nationals into a territory not under their sovereignty. Ehud Eiran explains why states launch settlement projects into occupied areas and introduces the international environment as an important enabling variable. By drawing comparisons between three such major projects - Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, Morocco in Western Sahara and Indonesia in East-Timor - Ehud Eiran classifies post-colonial settlement projects as a distinct cluster of cases that warrant a different analytical approach to traditional colonial studies.
Built on a careful synthesis of existing principles in international relations theory and empirical research, the book advances a clearly formulated theoretical position on the launch of post-colonial settlement projects. The result yields a number of fresh insights into the relationship between conflict, territory and international norms.
Key Features

• Explains what motivates states to launch post-colonial settlement projects, against international trends and norms
• Analyses three major post-colonial settlement projects (Israel, Morocco, Indonesia): one of the first books to place these projects in a comparative perspective
• Also analyses three cases where states considered settlements but did not launch projects: India in Goa, Libya in Chad and Mauritania in Western Sahara
• Argues that post-colonial settlement projects should be treated as a distinct category of cases, breaking with current work that views them as traditional colonial projects