Session 12 A – The Western Sahara Issue, Caught between Aggressive Realpolitik and Weakened Multilateralism, Panel 2: Plundering of Resources and the Normalization of Illegality

Chair: Yahia Zoubir (Fudan University Scholar, Shanghai)

Carlos Ruiz Miguel (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) – The Economic Dimension of the Right to Self-determination: The Western Sahara Case

Victoria Veguilla De Moral (Universidad Pablo Olavide) – “Non-interference” or Neutrality as an Alibi for Participation in the Occupation Economy of the Western Sahara?

Raquel Ojeda-García (Universidad de Granada) – The Exploitation of Natural Resources in Western Sahara in the Narratives of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)

Isaías Barreñada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, OUISO) – Western Sahara and Spain’s Contradictory Foreign Policy

Yolanda Blanco Souto (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) – Is There Still a Place for Africa in a Solution for Western Sahara?