{"product_id":"9781842773406","title":"Endgame in the Western Sahara : What Future for Africa's Last Colony","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eEndgame in the Western Sahara\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Toby Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does this remote swathe of Sahara along the Atlantic seaboard concern the USA 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this revealing book, Toby Shelley examines the geopolitics involved. He brings out:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe little-known struggle of Sahrawis living under Moroccan rule to defend their identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUSA\/European competition for influence in the Maghreb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe natural resources at stake -- rich fishing grounds, phosphates, and the prospect of oil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reasons behind the UN failure to resolve what is now Africa's last decolonisation issue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe evolution of the USA-backed Baker Plan to settle the dispute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow the Western Sahara's history and future is tangled up with Moroccan--Algerian rivalry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe political development of Polisario, independence movement and state-in-waiting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToby Shelley has talked to Polisario, Moroccan, Algerian and other diplomats. He has visited the territory and had access to opposition activists and Moroccan officials. In the refugee camps he interviewed the leadership of Polisario. What emerges is that the fate of the Western Sahara is being moulded by global and regional forces and that it is the Sahrawis under Moroccan rule who are best placed to influence that fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shelley's book is the most comprehensive contribution to the debate over Western Sahara in English since Tony Hodge's seminal 'Roots of a Desert War', published 20 years ago.” —\u003ci\u003eDeborah Hope, The Weekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent new book.” —\u003ci\u003eIan Black, The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Toby Shelley focuses on the situation in the territory since the ceasefire of 1991... Where [he] takes up the story in earnest, he tells it very well, and his is the only full-length, readily available account in English that covers the years of failed diplomacy... He has visited Western Sahara and wrung a lot of interesting detail from towns where media access is strictly controlled and trouble-makers - pro-independence activists or the families of detainees - are kept away from visitors. His sense is that much now hangs on what Sahrawis in Western Sahara can do to challenge the occupation.” —\u003ci\u003eJeremy Harding, The London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first real study of this obscure conflict in over 20 years.” —\u003ci\u003eMiddle East Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Toby Shelley provides a detailed account of the region's history since 1975.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781842773406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40593321001166,"sku":"9781842773406","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c2e3537f-f998-483e-a3b1-ebf4b75a7c4d.jpg?v=1637786278","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781842773406","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}