Common Contracts
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On 11 July 2002 a dozen Moroccan armed police occupied Parsley Island, a rocky outcrop off the north Moroccan coast. Five days later Spanish armed forces intervened to ‘liberate’ the island and repatriated the Moroccans. On 20 July, following the...January 30th, 2022
This article tries to establish what exactly took place in this bizarre episode, why Morocco suddenly decided to occupy the island, why Spain opted to use force to remove the Moroccans, and in particular why the United States became involved in the dispute over such a tiny territory. It becomes clear that, as with many territorial disputes, the occupation and the responses to it were symptomatic of other, more deep-seated and far-reaching grievances between the disputants, while the involvement of the world’s super-power was as much to do with its own self-interest as it was to act as a broker for peace.
