A history of false hope
Lori A. Allen’s A History of False Hope is a study of how Palestinians repeatedly engaged with international investigative commissions and other liberal institutions, only to see their hopes for justice deferred or denied. The book follows this pattern across the 20th
The Western Sahara Dispute: A Cautionary Tale for Peacebuilders
Dunbar and Malley-Morrison examine how the UN’s handling of the Western Sahara referendum produced a self-perpetuating stalemate and stunted the territory’s development.
Western Sahara as a Hybrid of a Parastate and a State-in-Exile: (Extra)territoriality and the Small Print of Sovereignty in a Context of Frozen Conflict
Fernández-Molina and Ojeda-García argue that the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is best understood as a hybrid of a parastate and a state-in-exile.
The Front Polisario Verdict and the Gap Between the EU’s Trade Treatment of Western Sahara and Its Treatment of the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Harpaz compares the EU’s trade treatment of occupied Western Sahara with its treatment of the occupied Palestinian territories after the Front Polisario ruling.
Conflict resolution in Western Sahara
Solà-Martín examines how Western governments’ democratisation rhetoric clashes with their conflict containment approach to Western Sahara.