The Ascendance of Political Islam: Hamas and consolidation in the Gaza Strip

@article{MiltonEdwards2008TheAO,
  title={The Ascendance of Political Islam: Hamas and consolidation in the Gaza Strip},
  author={Beverley Milton-Edwards},
  journal={Third World Quarterly},
  year={2008},
  volume={29},
  pages={1585 - 1599}
}
Abstract This article outlines the means by which the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas has developed and implemented a consolidation of power strategy that is inexorably driving it to a state of increasingly authoritarian control in the Gaza Strip. It discusses the factors that have driven Hamas in terms of power seeking as primordial to all radical Islamist movements or as a result of or response to other factors outside its control. The article highlights the concurrent demise of the Fatah… 
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