Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Towards a Multilevel Analysis of the Western Sahara Conflict and the Effects of its Protractedness / Irene Fernandez-Molina -- pt. 1 Global Level -- 2. The United Nations' Change in Approach to Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict since the Turn of the Twenty-First Century / Anna Theofilopoulou -- 3. The Geopolitical Functions of the Western Sahara Conflict: US Hegemony, Moroccan Stability and Sahrawi Strategies of Resistance / Jacob Mundy -- 4. The EU's Reluctant Engagement with the Western Sahara Conflict: Between Humanitarian Aid and Parliamentary Involvement / Susana Ruiz-Seisdedos -- pt. 2 Regional Levels -- 5. Western Sahara and the Arab Spring / Inmaculada Szmolka -- 6. Algerian Foreign Policy towards Western Sahara / Laurence Thieux -- 7. Beyond Western Sahara, the Sahel-Maghreb Axis Looms Large / Rasmus Alenius Boserup -- 8. The Role of Sahrawis and the Polisario Front in Maghreb-Sahel Regional Security / Alberto Bueno -- pt. 3 National and Local Levels (1): Moroccan Governance of the Western Sahara Territory -- 9. Western Sahara in the Framework of the New Moroccan Advanced Regionalization Reform / Angela Suarez-Collado -- 10. The Western Saharan Members of the Moroccan Parliament: Diplomacy and Perceptions of Identity / Maria Angustias Parejo -- 11. Changes in Moroccan Public Policies in the Western Sahara and International Law: Adjustments to a New Social Context in Dakhla / Victoria Veguilla -- pt. 4 National and Local Levels (2): Saharawi Resistance and Identity -- 12. Memory and Resistance: A Historical Account of the First "Intifadas" and Civil Organizations in the Territory of Western Sahara / Joseph Dickens-Gavito -- 13. Western Saharan and Southern Moroccan Sahrawis: National Identity and Mobilization / Isaias Barrenada -- 14. The View from Tindouf: Western Saharan Women and the Calculation of Autochthony / Konstantina Isidoros -- 15. "For Us, Parliament Is a Tool for Liberation": Elections as an Opportunity for a Transterritorial Sahrawi Population / Alice Wilson -- pt. 5 Conclusion -- 16. Conclusion / Francesco Cavatorta.