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The Peace Business is a study of the evolution and consequences of business cooperation in the Middle East in the years of the peace process. Markus E. Bouillon examines how the engagement of entrepreneurs and businesspeople in the peace process, as well as how the nature of business ties between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians, failed to strengthen and advance peace in the Middle East. In this important contribution to the Israel-Palestine debate, he argues that private business interests undermined economic and political stability domestically and thus contributed to the failure of the peace process.
Markus E. Bouillon is currently working as a freelance political analyst, specializing in the Middle East and the Palestine-Israel conflict. In 2002, he gained his doctorate in international relations at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, where he worked under the supervision of Avi Shlaim.