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 European Union Approach Towards Western Sahara
Colonialism left an indelible mark on Africa and the Sahrawi people are one of the many groups who are still reckoning with the inheritance left them by Europeans.
Stories of the Sahara
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and among the most sparsely populated, spanning 103,000 square miles of dunes and flatlands. How did a fiercely cosmopolitan Taiwanese woman end up living in one of the harshest territories on earth? What compelled her to move there? And once she got there, what happened?
Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises
Long before the 1948 Arab-Israeli war when 750,000 people fled or were forced out of Mandate Palestine, the stage was set for Palestinians to become—and to remain—refugees. From the late 19thcentury the Zionist movement had conceived a plan for a Jewish return to the Holy Land.
Sovereignty in Exile
The heat of the day soft ened, and we began to stir from our midday slumbers. Thirsty for air, we emerged from the tent to resume the morning’s abandoned labors. It was nearly the end of my month-long sojourn with a family of camel herders in the pasturelands that my hosts called, in the accent of the Hassaniya dialect of Arabic, the badīah.