Researcher at Yale University Omar Shehabi published a study in the Social Science Research Network titled, “No Alternative to Despair? Sahrawis, Palestinians & The International Law of Nationalism.”
This article builds on Nathaniel Berman’s research on how the international community has shaped and regulated the issue of nationalism since the Concert of Europe began to collapse in the late 19th century. This article specifically explores the constitutive aspect of culture in law. The cultural judgments that the international authority of successive eras imprinted upon the Sahrawis and Palestinians along their way to protagonist status in international law of nationalism still carry the weight of their nationalist claims until this day.
Changes in the conceptualization of group identity have impacted Sahrawis and Palestinians to pursue their right to self-determination.
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