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{"title":"A review of: „Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara: The Role of the UN's Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO)\" edited by János Besenyő, R. Joseph Huddleston, and Yahia H. Zoubir","authors":"Richárd Schneider","doi":"10.59569/jceeas.2022.2.4.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59569/jceeas.2022.2.4.144","url":null,"abstract":"The United Nations (UN) and the Security Council (UNSC) as its main political body is definitely the key actor in the promotion and maintenance of international peace and security. To put it briefly, as a way to abide by its principles defined in the Charter of the United Nations, the UN have deployed peace operations in order to stabilize conflict-torn situations since quasi the very beginning of its existence. After the Cold War the international system has changed, just as power and international dynamics, that might have an impact on the evolution of armed conflicts and counter-strategies developed by the international community. During the 1990s, the changing nature and role of peace missions resulted in developing new multidimensional operations with w ide range of tasks and broad mandates. The international community’s commitment toward such conflict resolution endeavours with complex mandates concerns better accountability, cost-efficiency, international law compliance, human rights monitoring, and context-specific or community-based approaches, just to mention a few. After the end of the Spaniard authority over Western Sahara in 1975, Morocco occupied a meaningful part of the territory. In contrary to the exploitation of the natural resources and the support of the influx of new settlers to the territory by Rabat, and the strengthening of its military presence, the Saharawi population is still insisting on to exercise its self-determination. Since then, no other than the United States (US Embassy & Consulates in Morocco, 2020) has officially recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the Territory, and “ Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is in fact not recognized in international law ” (Quesada and Brooks, p. 145). The international community is d ivided, some supports Western Sahara’s autonomy under Moroccan authority, while others insist on recognizing it as a sovereign state. The resolution of this conflict is in the interest of the whole international community and there is a must to force the parties to compromise. Even though both the International Court of","PeriodicalId":158866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124940739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of: “Britain, Germany and Colonial Violence in South-West Africa, 1884–1919: The Herero and Nama Genocide” by Mads Bomholt Nielsen","authors":"László Pálfi","doi":"10.59569/jceeas.2022.2.4.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59569/jceeas.2022.2.4.84","url":null,"abstract":"Horst Drechsler made a revolutionary move when he explored the “Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and Their Treatment by Germany” a.k.a. Blue Book, written by the South African invaders of German South West Africa. The East German historian, whose book “Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft: der Kampf der Herero und Nama gegen den deutschen Imperialismus (1884–1915)“ meant a paradigmatic change in the research of German colonial history, since the socialist scholar was the first who declared that the German rule in South West Africa was a form of colonial guilt.","PeriodicalId":158866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies","volume":"7 Suppl 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122908167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of: “Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak” by Michael J. Willis","authors":"Z. Szabó","doi":"10.59569/jceeas.2022.2.4.174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59569/jceeas.2022.2.4.174","url":null,"abstract":"According to the author of the review, this work is considered to be one of the most important books on Algeria, North Africa and the MENA region in recent years. It is relevant, as it has been published in 2022 and it uses data from primary and secondary sources that are fresh and interesting in nature. The writer is an Oxford University professor, who has written already several books on the theme. The author goes on to describe the book by first grading its quality concerning sources, materials and methods. Then the book is explored according to its eight chapters, by which the author consistently explores every aspect of the modern Algerian life from history to politics to economy and so on. The first chapter is about the early independence history of Algeria, the second comprises the terms of Bouteflika, the third chapter describes the islamist movements of the 1990s, the fourth chapter considers the politics and economy of the country, the fifth chapter turns to concentrate on the existing political opposition and its forms in Algeria, the sixth chapter examines Algerian politics and society, which is also an improtant factor, the seventh chapter focuses on restive regions (Kabylia, Mzab, Saharan South), while the eighth chapter's aim is to describe the country's position in the international community. The book uses primary sources collected on the scene (2015-2017) and an impressive list of secondary sources listed in the bibliography at the end. Its style is fluent and regardless of some minor debatable issues, his findings are to be considered new in the research area of Algeria, the North African region, and the MENA region. The author finishes his review by confirming that he could only recommend this book to every reader or researcher who is interested in the topic or want to conduct research based on it.","PeriodicalId":158866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127300844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}