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Competitive exclusion: A biological model applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

J. Kristen Urban
J. Kristen Urban*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Mount St. Mary's University, 212 Knott Academic Center, Emmitsburg, MD 21727 urban@msmary.edu
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Abstract

The Principle of Competitive Exclusion, first articulated by Gause in 1934, states that two species or populations cannot inhabit the same niche: one will consistently out-compete the other. Of four possible outcomes, the logistic equations that describe such interaction present only one possibility for coexistence, that being when the density-dependent mechanisms of one population become activated before intergroup competition eliminates the other. In applying Gause's Principle as an explanatory model to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this research explores the present bantustanization of the West Bank as a logical outcome of interspecific competition, but sees the competition coefficients of the equations as the key factors in promoting a stable equilibrium.

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competitive exclusionbiological coexistencepopulation nichesWest BankIsraeli-Palestinian conflict
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , September 2009 , pp. 69 - 83
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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