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A comprehensive history of Western Sahara--an arid land bordering Morocco in the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania in the east and the south, and the Atlantic coastline in the west--bitterly contested since 1975 by Morocco and the guerrillas of the Polisario Front. This edition of the Dictionary updates and supplements the first edition of 1982. Some 700 alphabetical entries range from major personalities, political movements, wars, and treaties to places, ethnic groups, and economic resources, with extensive entries on the OAU and the UN. Includes an introduction, map, detailed chronology, chart of tribal and ethnic groups, and heavily augmented bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description
Includes the UN referendum effort and recent political changes in neighboring Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria and providing a wealth of historical, sociological, economic, and political information.

About the Author
A lawyer and writer, Anthony G. Pazzanita (AB, Franklin and Marshall; JD, Case Western Reserve; MA, international relations, University of Pennsylvania) has visited Western Sahara, attended professional conferences on the conflict, written journal articles on North African and other topics, and contributed a chapter to "International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict," Zoubir and Volman, eds. A British writer and journalist, Tony Hodges is the author of "Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War" and numerous other articles. Formerly on the staff of the Economist Intelligence Unit, he lives in London and works for the African Economic Resource Consortium in Nairobi.

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Since the Madrid Agreement of November 1975, the war between Morocco and the guerillas of the Polisaro Front has proven one of the longest-lasting and most interactable disputes on the African continent. It threatened the survival of the Organization of African Unity in the Early 1980s, and since 1986 has consumed a good deal of the UN's attention, including a major—and controversial—attempt by the world body to organize a referendum of self-determination in Western Sahara. The shortage of scholarly work in English on this contested territory continues. This second edition fills the gap, including the UN referendum effort and recent political changes in neighboring Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria and providing a wealth of historical, sociological, economic, and political information. The dictionary contains some 700 entries, ranging from major personalities, political movements, wars, and treaties, to places, ethnic groups, and economic resources, with extensive entries on the OAU and the UN. Introduction, map, detailed chronology,chart of tribal and ethnic groups, adn heavily augmented bibliography.

Author Biography: A lawyer and writer, Anthony G. Pazzanita (AB, Franklin and Marshall; JD, Case Western Reserve; MA, international relations, University of Pennsylvania) has visited Western Sahara, attended professional conferences on the conflict, written journal articles on North African and other topics, and contributed a chapter to "International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict," Zoubir and Volman, eds. A British writer and journalist, Tony Hodges is the author of "Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War" and numerous other articles. Formerly on thestaff of the Economist Intelligence Unit, he lives in London and works for the African Economic Resource Consortium in Nairobi.

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