Western Sahara: Anatomy of a stalemate?
This new edition of Western Sahara takes the story of the ongoing conflict up to the present and also looks ahead.
Spanish Sahara
The Spanish Sahara (including Rio de Oro) is a district of north-west Africa, extending in a northeasterly and south-westerly direction from the Wad Draa, on the southern frontier of Morocco to Cape Blanco, on the northern frontier of Mauretania.
War and Refugees: The Western Sahara Conflict
In the evolution of the organizing principle of mankind from empire to nation-state during the four decades following World War II, more than a billion persons navigated the transition from subjects of foreign rulers to citizens of independent political entities.
Western Sahara: The roots of a desert war
The Sahara was not always a desert. Through the ages, arid and humid periods have alternated in this now scorched and desolate land. Between about 5000 and 2500 B.C.
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.