N INTERDISCIPLINARY group of scholars charged itself with the task of developing scenarios of the future of the Israel-Palestinian relationship. 1 The group, which includes general theorists, decisionmaking specialists, modelers, discourse analysts, and experts on the Middle East, is primarily interested in the power of theoretical explanation under contingent historical conditions. We decided to explore the limits of theoretical explanation through forward rather than backward reasoning. We
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