Western Sahara

""The Western Sahara is one of the world's last vestiges of colonialism. In this thoughtful and impressive analysis, Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy provide valuable insights on the importance of enabling the people of the Western Sahara to determine their own future through a democratic referendum."- the late senator Edward Kennedy" ""This book is a timely and scholarly synthesis presented with clarity and comprehension.^ Backed by their fieldwork, the authors consider Western Sahara's irresolution as a consequence of not only competing nationalisms (and interfering actors), but also of conflicting imaginations of polity and society"︣Phillip Naylor, author of France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation" ""A well researched, well written, and all encompassing book on one of the most intractable, but for the most part forgotten conflicts of our times:'︣Anna Theofilopoulou, special advisor to UN Secretary-General's personal envoy to Western Sahara James Baker" ""Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes have done a great service in putting together this book, the most comprehensive coverage of the Western Sahara conflict in the English language in a quarter-century:'︣George