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Record W2159076531 · doi:10.1080/713869651

The Western Sahara Dispute and UN Pressure

2002· article· en· W2159076531 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Khadija Mohsen-Finan

Bibliographic record

VenueMediterranean Politics · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican Studies and Geopolitics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSovereigntyReferendumAutonomyPolitical scienceQuarter (Canadian coin)Power (physics)LawBilateralismPolitical economyPoliticsMultilateralismSociologyGeography

Abstract

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More than a quarter of a century after Morocco and Polisario began their war over who owns the former colony of Spanish (Western) Sahara, efforts to organize the referendum on self-determination, which everyone agrees should be held, seem to have reached a dead end. Morocco, the United Nations, the United States and France are now pushing for the territory's self-rule under Moroccan sovereignty, an option rejected outright by Polisario and its patron, Algeria. Ingenuity and a greater involvement of other countries will probably be needed to solve the dispute. Perhaps some kind of trusteeship is possible, involving the permanent members of the Security Council keeping the peace while trying to persuade the combatants to outline a plan for a genuine autonomy that is more than just window-dressing aimed at securing international acceptance of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory. Europe, NATO or other groups of countries could also help stabilize the region. Whatever happens, more countries need to work on and think about how to solve the conflict beyond holding a referendum whose results cannot be applied or accepting an imposed autonomy that seems equally impossible to implement in view of the regional balance of power and Morocco's categorical rejection of partition.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.008
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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