International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict

Yahia H. Zoubir teaches political science at the American Graduate School of Business in Montreux, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous articles on the Western Sahara conflict and Algerian politics, which have appeared in the Arab Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and Africa Today, and as chapters in several books.Daniel Volman is adjunct instructor in the School of International Service at American University, Washington, D.C. He received his PhD in African history from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991. He is the author of numerous articles on U.S. military policy toward Africa, which have appeared in the Journal of Modern African Studies, New African, and The New York Times.

• Introduction Origins and Development of the Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia H. Zoubir Spain, France, and the Western Sahara: A Historical Narrative and Study of National Transformation by Phillip C. Naylor The United States in the Saharan War: A Case of Low-Intensity Intervention by Stephen Zunes U.S. Strategic Interests and the War in the Western Sahara by Richard B. Parker Moscow, the Maghreb, and Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia H. Zoubir The Western Sahara: International Legal Issues by Beth A. Payne The Role of Foreign Military Assistance in the Western Sahara War by Daniel Volman The Greater Maghreb and the Western Sahara by Robert A. Mortimer The Proposed Referendum in the Western Sahara: Background, Developments, and Prospects by Anthony G. Pazzanita The Western Sahara Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era by Yahia H. Zoubir and Daniel Volman Glossary Selected Bibliography Index

"This informative and well-researched collection reviews and evaluates the diplomatic history of the disputed territory of western Sahara over the last two decades." - Foreign Affairs