Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara's Protracted Decolonization: When a Conflict Gets Old

Introduction

1. Introduction: Towards a Multilevel Analysis of the Western Sahara Conflict and the Effects of its Protractedness

Irene Fern?ndez-Molina

I. Global Level

2. The United Nations' Change in Approach to Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict since the Turn of the 21st Century

Anna Theofilopoulou

3. The Geopolitical Functions of the Western Sahara Conflict: US Hegemony, Moroccan Stability and Sahrawi Strategies of Resistance

Jacob Mundy

4. The EU's Reluctant Engagement with the Western Sahara Conflict: Between Humanitarian Aid and Parliamentary Involvement

Mar?a Luisa Grande-Gasc?n and Susana Ruiz-Seisdedos

II. Regional Levels

5. Western Sahara and the Arab Spring

Inmaculada Szmolka

6. Algerian Foreign Policy towards Western Sahara

Laurence Thieux

7. Beyond Western Sahara, the Sahel-Maghreb Axis Looms Large

Luis Martinez and Rasmus Alenius Boserup

8. The Role of Sahrawis and the Polisario Front in Maghreb-Sahel Regional Security

Miguel G. Guindo and Alberto Bueno

III. National and Local Levels (1): Moroccan Governance of the Western Sahara Territory

9. Western Sahara in the Framework of the New Moroccan Advanced Regionalization Reform

Raquel Ojeda-Garc?a and ?ngela Su?rez-Collado

10. The Western Saharan Members of the Moroccan Parliament: Diplomacy and Perceptions of Identity

Laura Feliu and Mar?a Angustias Parejo

11. Changes in Moroccan Public Policies in Western Sahara and International Law: Adjustments to a New Social Context in Dakhla

Victoria Veguilla

IV. National and Local Levels (2): Saharawi Resistance and Identity

12. Memory and Resistance: A Historical Account of the First "Intifadas" and Civil Organizations in the Territory of Western Sahara

Claudia Barona and Joseph Dickens-Gavito

13. Western Saharan and Southern Moroccan Sahrawis: National Identity and Mobilization

Isa?as Barre?ada

14. The View from Tindouf: Western Saharan Women and the Calculation of Autochthony

Konstantina Isidoros

15. "For us, Parliament is a Tool for Liberation" Elections as an Opportunity for a Transterritorial Sahrawi Population

Alice Wilson

V. Conclusion

16. Conclusion

Francesco Cavatorta

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349950343
• ISBN13: 9781349950348
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.4"