Paradigm Lost

Published by Dar Al-Ahliya, "Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality" by political scientist Ian S. Lustick is a hard-hitting critique of Middle Eastern diplomacy. Lustick contends that decades of attachment to the "two-state solution" have become a harmful political illusion, serving primarily to disguise and perpetuate the expansion of settlement networks and systemic control. Through rigorous political theory and historical analysis, the book demonstrates why a Palestinian state is no longer viable under current conditions. Instead, Lustick urges policymakers and analysts to accept the "one-state reality" that already exists, encouraging a strategic pivot toward fighting for equal rights, citizenship, and democratic accountability within the single political entity controlling the land.

It provides an indispensable, realistic political assessment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, dismantling obsolete diplomatic rhetoric to focus on real-world rights and equal citizenship.

Political scientists, diplomats, human rights advocates, Middle Eastern studies experts, and readers seeking an honest analysis of contemporary geopolitics in Israel and Palestine.