A Battlefield Transformed: From Guerilla Resistance to Mass Nonviolent Struggle in the Western Sahara
In late May 2005 erupted a mass uprising in the Maghreb against foreign domination. Thousands of ethnic Sahrawis in Western Sahara—a former Spanish colony under strict Moroccan military control since Morocco invaded and occupied the territory in 1975—took to the streets, echoing recent largely unarmed protest movements in Georgia, Ukraine, and Lebanon. Demonstrators demanded the withdrawal of Moroccan troops and independence for what they describe as Africa’s last remaining colony.
The Western Sahara conflict: The Role of Natural Resources in Decolonization
The eternal struggle between international legality and realpolitik has produced some interesting cases in the last forty years.
The resurgence of algeria’s foreign policy in the twenty-first century
In January 1992, the military regime in Algeria interrupted the electoral process when the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS).