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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265133203321

Autore

Müller Miriam M.

Titolo

A spectre is haunting Arabia : how the Germans brought their communism to Yemen / / Miriam M. Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-8394-3225-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Edition Politik ; 26

Disciplina

320.95332000000002

Soggetti

Socialism - Yemen, South - History

Communism - Yemen, South - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Content    5  Abbreviations (in German and English)    11  Preface    13  CHAPTER 1. Then and Now    19  CHAPTER 2. State of Research    31  CHAPTER 3. Analytical Approach    47  CHAPTER 4. Squeezed between Bonn and Moscow    77  CHAPTER 5. Phase I: Between Internal Consolidation and International Recognition    85  CHAPTER 6. Phase II: From No.2 in the Eastern Bloc to Just Another Isolation    97  CHAPTER 7. The "Three Spheres of Foreign Policy Making"    109  CHAPTER 8. The GDR and the "Arab World"    157  CHAPTER 9. Forging a National Identity in Yemen's South    187  CHAPTER 10. Methodological Prelude    229  FOREIGN POLICY PHASE ANALYSIS    243  CHAPTER 11. Phase I: The Phase of Sampling and Creation    245  CHAPTER 12. Phase II    265  Interlude. South Yemen    297  CHAPTER 13. Phase III: The Phase of Continuity and Consolidation    307  CHAPTER 14. Phase IV: The Phase of Neglect - The GDR in Yemen from 1986 to 1990    329  CHAPTER 15. On the External and Internal Empirical "Limits" of East German Foreign Policy    356  CHAPTER 16. South Yemen as the Model Case of a Possible East German Foreign Policy    369  CHAPTER 17. Moscow, East Berlin and the "Hawks of Hadramawt"    383  I. Bibliography    397  II. Archival Documents    425

Sommario/riassunto

Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying



common enemy. In Yemen's transition process today, the secessionist movement Al-Hirak has summoned the spirit of South Yemen, the only Marxist state in Arabia. This book meticulously describes how East Germany supported the implantation of this alien ideology in Yemen through its policy of »Socialist state- and nation-building«. In the same breath, the analysis captures the GDR's activities in the Middle East and their vital role in Moscow's Cold War strategy. Last but least, the study provides one of the few compact overviews of East German foreign policy in the English language of today.

»Das Verdienst des Buches [ist es], gewohnte Forschungsperspektiven gewechselt und den Komplex des ostdeutsch-südjemenitischen Verhältnisses in einen größeren - primär das englischsprachige Publikum adressierenden - politikwissenschaftlich-theoretischen Kontext gerückt zu haben, indem er als ›socialist state- and nation-building‹ gefasst wurde.«  Lutz Maeke, www.sehepunkte.de, 17/9 (2017)    »Die Arbeit schließt eine wichtige Lücke in der Forschung zur DDR-Geschichte.«  Michael Rohschürmann, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 17.03.2016    Besprochen in:  Jemen-Report (2016), Thanos Petouris  The Chronicle, 01.04.2016