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Self Determination Struggle in the Western Sahara Continues to Challenge the UN

After much wrangling from the French, the UN Security Council unanimously passed resolution 1495 right on the July 31st deadline for the rollover of the MINURSO peacekeeping operation in Western Sahara. In the best diplomatic tradition, the resolution affirmed the commitment to provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, even while it seriously compromised on it by supporting a peace plan that would allow the Moroccan settlers in the territory to vote on independence in five years. As with Israeli settlers on the West Bank, these Moroccan colonists are there in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits countries from transfering their civilian population onto territories seized by military force.

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Indigestible Lands? Comparing the Fates of the Western Sahara and East Timor

Book chapter in Rightsizing the State: The Politics of Moving Borders edited by Brendan O’Leary, Ian Lustick and Thomas Callaghy (Oxford University Press 2001)

http://books.google.com/books?id=5medrSEu3t8C

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New Hope for Western Sahara

Article in Peace Review, Vol. 10, No. 1 (April 1998).

http://usf.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html

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The United States and the Western Sahara Peace Process

Article in Middle East Policy, Vol. V, No. 4 (January 1998).

http://www.mepc.org/journal_vol5/9801.asp

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Western Sahara: Peace Derailed

Article in Current History (May 1996).

http://www.currenthistory.com/

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Algeria, the Maghreb Union, and the Western Sahara Stalemate

Article in Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 17; No. 3 (Summer 1995)

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The United States in the Sahara War: A Case of Low-Intensity Intervention

Book chapter in International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict edited by Daniel Volman and Yahia Zoubir (Greenwood Press 1993).

http://books.google.com/books?id=2PmPAAAAMAAJ

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Participatory Democracy in the Western Sahara: A Study of Polisario Self-Governance

Article in Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives Vol. 7; Nos. 2-3 (June-September 1988).

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Nationalism and Non-Alignment: The Non-Ideology of the Polisario

Article in Africa Today Vol. 34; No. 3 (February 10, 1988).

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The United States and Morocco: The Sahara War and Regional Interests

Article in Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 9; No. 4 (Autumn 1987)