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dc.contributor.authorFernandez-Molina, I
dc.contributor.authorOjeda-García, R
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-30T15:54:35Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-16
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that the “declarative” parastate of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) claiming sovereignty over Western Sahara is better understood as a hybrid between a parastate and a state-in-exile. It relies more on external, “international legal sovereignty,” than on internal, “Westphalian” and “domestic” sovereignty. While its Algerian operational base in the Tindouf refugee camps makes it work as a primarily extraterritorial state-in-exile de facto, the SADR maintains control over one quarter of Western Sahara’s territory proper allowing it to at least partially meet the requirements for declarative statehood de jure. Many case-specific nuances surround the internal sovereignty of the SADR in relation to criteria for statehood: territory, population, and government. However, examining this case in a comparative light reveals similarities with other (secessionist) parastates. The SADR exists within the context of a frozen conflict, where the stalemate has been reinforced by an ineffective internationally brokered peace settlement and the indefinite presence of international peacekeeping forces. Global powers have played a major role in prolonging the conflict’s status quo while the specific resilience of the SADR as a parastate has been ensured by support from Algeria as an external sponsor. The path to sovereignty appears to be blocked in every possible way.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 16 December 2019en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/nps.2019.34
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/34557
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCambridge University Press for © Association for the Study of Nationalities 2019en_GB
dc.rights© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2019
dc.subjectParastatesen_GB
dc.subjectstates-in-exileen_GB
dc.subjectfrozen conflictsen_GB
dc.subjectsovereigntyen_GB
dc.subjectdeclarative and constitutive statehooden_GB
dc.subjectWestern Sahara/SADRen_GB
dc.titleWestern Sahara as a Hybrid of a Parastate and a State-in-exile: (Extra)territoriality and the Small Print of Sovereignty in a Context of Frozen Conflicten_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn0090-5992
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalNationalities Papers - The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicityen_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-10-29
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refterms.dateFOA2019-12-16T14:57:06Z


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