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What Future for Africa's Last Colony? Toby Shelley Zed Books, 2004. |
Behind the Sandwall, Jeremy Harding, LRB | Vol. 28 No. 4,dated 23 February 2006 |
What Future
for Africa's Last Colony? Toby
Shelley Zed
Books, 2004.
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Behind
the Sandwall,
Jeremy Harding, LRB | Vol. 28 No. 4,dated 23 February 2006
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Why does a remote swathe of the Western Sahara concern the US and Europe? Why does Morocco maintain its occupation? Why has the UN Security Council prevaricated for three decades while the Sahrawis live under Moroccan rule or as refugees? This book examines the geopolitics and reveals:
Toby Shelley has visited the territory and talked to both opposition activists and Moroccan officials. He has interviewed the Polisario leadership in the refugee camps. He shows how the future of the Western Sahara is being moulded by global and regional forces and how the Sahrawis are best placed to influence that fate.
In this revealing book, Financial Times journalist Toby Shelley examines the geopolitics involved in the ongoing Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara and recounts the little-known struggle of Sahrawis to defend their identity. In the process Shelley examines the US and European competition for influence in the Maghreb and the natural resources at stake - rich fishing grounds, phosphates, and the prospect of oil. He also explains the reasons behind the UN failure to resolve the issue and the evolution of the US-backed Baker Plan to settle the dispute. Toby Shelley has talked to Polisario (the independence movement) , Moroccan, Algerian and other diplomats. Based on thorough knowledge of all the key players, what emerges is a picture of the Western Sahara moulded by global and regional forces and that it is the Sahrawis under Moroccan rule who are best placed to influence that fate.
Contents
Chronology
1. Introduction
2. International context: The Maghreb from 'Cold War' to 'War Against Terror'
3. Cain and Abel: The Western Sahara and the Struggle for Regional Supremacy
4. Morocco: Unstable and Counting the Cost of the Green March
5. The Alchemist's Dream: The Quest for Gold from the Desert Sand
6. Sahrawi Society under Occupation
7. The 'Years of Lead'
8. An Identity Forged by Resistance
9. 1999: Civil Society and Breaking Down the 'Wall of Fear'
10. Zero sum game: The Western Sahara and the UN Process
11. Polisario and the SADR: Guerrillas, Refugees and their State-in- Waiting
12. War: The Unbroken Chain
13. EndgameNormal price:
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