PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Statehood, Sovereignty, and the International SystemI: Nationalism and Nation-States in Recent Times1: International Law and the Politics of Recognition: A Comparative Study of the Palestinian, Western Saharan, and Taiwanese Struggle for Statehood2: The Undercurrents of Political Economy of Nationalism3: U.S. Recognition of the Illegal Israeli and Moroccan Annexations of Occupied Territories4: Comparing Hamas and Irgun in the Struggles for Independence: A Continuation of the Same Terrorist Strategies by Different Actors?II: Modern Palestine and the Struggle for Independence5: The State of Palestine as a Sovereign Actor in the International Community: Implications for Its Legal Status6: The State of Palestine: Between Abstraction and Reality7: Toward a Global Agenda: Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian ConflictIII: Taiwan’s Nationalism and Sovereignty8: Kurdayeti and Taiwan Rentong: Identity and Nation Building in Under-Recognized States9: Taiwan in United States’ Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy AgendaIV: Western Sahara and the Decolonization Process10: The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: A State That Never Was?11: The Case for Independence12: Western Sahara Peace Process, 1975–2008: An OverviewConclusion: General Comments on Statehood and Collective AspirationsAppendixAbout the Contributors