Justice on Trial: Law, Politics and Western Sahara
In the first book IPJET published in 2007 on the legal issues involved in the Western Sahara dispute a number of esteemed scholars discussed a myriad of issues that were pertinent to the topic at that time. Since then a number of other issues have arisen which have added to or complemented the discussions raised in that book, and the current edition seeks to present some of the most important of these in four sections.
Saharan stasis: Status and future prospects of the Western Sahara conflict
The nine-year United Nations effort to hold a "winner-take-all" referendum in Western Sahara is stalemated by fundamental difference as to who should be allowed to vote. The United Nations is pessimistic that such a vote can ever be taken.
Western Sahara
Simon argues that Morocco is an occupying power in Western Sahara and that the Sahrawi people hold a decolonisation-based right to self-determination.
Cold War Technologies, Global Fertilizers, and the Fate of Western Sahara
Camprubí shows how the search for and control of phosphate shaped the fate of Western Sahara during the Cold War.
The Western Sahara Conflict: Regional and International Dimensions
Zoubir examines King Hassan II’s 1989 meetings with Polisario and why they changed Morocco’s tone but not its position on Western Sahara.