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WESTERN SAHARA Saharan Conflict: Towards Territorial Autonomy as a Right to Democratic Self-Determination, by Abdelhamid El Ouali. London, UK: Stacey International, 2008. 254 pages. Table to p. 10. Annexes to p. 195. Notes to p. 228. Bibl. to p. 247. Index to p. 254. BP16.95. Reviewed by Jacques Roussellier
The author, a noted Moroccan scholar, offers a robust legal and diplomatic account of the origins, history, and intricacy of the Western Saharan conflict from a Moroccan perspective, which is most informative on the colonial period, together with a thought-provoking discussion of the concept of autonomy in the post-modern context.
El Ouali reiterates the well-known Moroccan position that the Sahara is a bilateral legal issue pertaining to international law and not a matter of decolonization that implies a right to self-determination. He frames the dispute over the Sahara...