@misc{10481/98005, year = {2023}, month = {11}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/98005}, abstract = {The dispute over Western Sahara may be characterised as a protracted decolonisation and territorial-sovereignty conflict with a regional dimension, which has long determined the course of international relations and foreign policies in the Maghreb. Following a series of developments triggered by the United Nations’ (UN) demand for the decolonisation of the territory known at the time as Spanish Sahara – including the birth in 1973 of the Polisario Front as a national liberation movement representing the indigenous Sahrawi people, Morocco’s judicial and diplomatic offensive to assert its claim over the territory, and Spain’s delayed announcement of plans to hold a referendum on self-determination (1964-75) – the combination of the Spanish U-turn enshrined in the Madrid Accords and the Moroccan Green March gave rise to the foreign occupation of this non-self-governing territory and a conflict that remains unresolved to this day.}, publisher = {Aldo LIGA}, title = {The Western Sahara Conflict as the Chicken and Egg of the Non-Maghreb}, doi = {10.14672/56000180}, author = {Fernández Molina, Irene and Hernando de Larramendi, Miguel and Ojeda García, Raquel}, }