GLENN ROBINSON: AUTHORITARIANISM AND SUCCESSION IN PALESTINE
On Oct. 19, the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine hosted Glenn E. Robinson, research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC-Berkeley and professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He began by praising the center as "one of the few places to provide an alternative view of events in the Middle East," saying that the organization understood better than most the issues surrounding the recent clashes in that region. Robinson wasn't surprised by the intensity of recent Middle East outbursts since, he said, political violence was inherent in the system being put in …