Palestine, Taiwan, and Western Sahara

Statehood, Sovereignty, and the International System

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3200-3 (ISBN)

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To have a State, four distinct conditions must be met. First, there must be a community of people, and it matters not whether they belong to the same color, faith, or ethnicity. Second, there must be a geographical space, a settlement that this community of people calls a home. Third, there must be governing authority. And finally, the government must be sovereign – sovereign in the sense that it is self-governing and independent of any domestic or international body. Palestine, Taiwan, and Western Sahara have met all the forestated conditions -- except for broad international support and recognition and membership of the United Nations. However, this has not been the case with Palestine, Taiwan, and Western Sahara. This edited volume examines some of the endogenous and exogenous factors that have contributed to the ambiguous and contested nature of these political entities and argued that the undermined nature of these entities contributes to regional instability and global insecurity. And finally, the continued denial of statehood is a violation of their collective human rights.

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is professor of political science and a member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University.

Part I: Nationalism and Nation-States in Recent Times

Chapter 1: International Law and the Politics of Recognition: A Comparative Study of the Palestinian, Western Saharan, And Taiwanese Struggle for Statehood - Priye S. Torulagha

Chapter 2: The Undercurrents of Political Economy of Nationalism - Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari

Chapter 3: U.S. Recognition of the Illegal Israel and Moroccan Annexations of Occupied Territories - Stephen Zunes

Chapter 4: Comparing Hamas and Irgun in the Struggles for Independence: A Continuation of the Same Terrorist Strategy by Different Actors? - Lawrence Mhandara

Part II: Modern Palestine and the Struggle for Independence

Chapter 5: The State of Palestine as a Sovereign Actor in the International Community: Implications for Its Legal Status - Konstantinos Magliveras and Gino Naldi

Chapter 6: The State of Palestine: Between Abstraction and Reality - Federica Stagni

Chapter 7: Towards A Global Agenda: Resolving the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict - Idowu Adetayo Johnson

Part III: Taiwan’s Nationalism and Sovereignty

Chapter 8: Kurdayeti and Taiwan: Identity and Nation Building in Under-Recognized States - Dean Karalekas

Chapter 9: Taiwan in United States Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy Agenda -- Felix Kumah-Abiwu

Part IV: Western Sahara and the Decolonization Process

Chapter 10: Will Western Sahara Statehood Remain Unfinished Business? - Gino Naldi and Cristiano d’Orsi

Chapter 11: The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: The Case for Independence - J.J.P. Smith

Chapter 12: Western Sahara Peace Process, 1975-2008: An Overview - Meriem Naili

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2023
Co-Autor	Felix Kumah-Abiwu, Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari, Idowu Johnson, Dean Karalekas
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-6669-3200-0 / 1666932000
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-3200-3 / 9781666932003
Zustand	Neuware