The Western Sahara Conflict as the Chicken and Egg of the Non-Maghreb Fernández Molina, Irene Hernando de Larramendi, Miguel Ojeda García, Raquel https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/the-cost-of-non-maghreb-153636 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. 2024-12-13T12:59:55Z 2024-12-13T12:59:55Z 2023-11 book part The cost of “non-Maghreb”. Unpacking the political and economical costs of disunion and divisions. Milan: Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) https://hdl.handle.net/10481/98005 10.14672/56000180 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Aldo LIGA