Sovereignty in Exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs

by Alice Wilson and Alice Wilson

Sovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state power through the case of a liberation movement that set out to make itself into a state. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was founded by the Polisario Front in the wake of Spain's abandonment of its former colony, the disputed Western Sahara. Morocco laid claim to the same territory, and the conflict has locked Polisario and Morocco in a political stalemate that has lasted forty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224849X
• ISBN13: 9780812248494
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"