A Spectre is Haunting Arabia : How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen / Miriam M. Müller
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| Autore: |
Müller Miriam M (Miriam M. Müller, Free University of Berlin, Germany)
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| Titolo: |
A Spectre is Haunting Arabia : How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen / Miriam M. Müller
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| Pubblicazione: | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (441 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.95332000000002 |
| Soggetto topico: | Yemen |
| Marxism | |
| GDR | |
| Cold War | |
| State-Building | |
| Middle East | |
| Ideology | |
| Soviet Union | |
| Arab Peninsula | |
| Politics | |
| International Relations | |
| Political Ideologies | |
| State | |
| Contemporary History | |
| Political Science | |
| 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. |
| [The] work stands as a great example of the strength of an open-minded interdisciplinary approach and should serve as both an encouragement and a reminder that the history of the GDR's foreign policy (not only) in Yemen has not yet been conclusively written. Thanks to Müller's book, future scholars will have a strong and solid foundation from which to continue writing the history of this peculiar ›Spectre‹.« | |
| Die Arbeit schließt eine wichtige Lücke in der Forschung zur DDR-Geschichte. | |
| 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. | |
| Insgesamt bietet Müllers Werk den ersten, auf deutschem Archivmaterial basierenden Überblick über die ostdeutsch-südjemenitischen Beziehungen. Er schließt damit eine bedeutende Lücke in der bestehenden Historiographie beider Länder und stellt lang gehaltene Annahmen über die Rolle der DDR im Südjemen in Frage. | |
| Besprochen in:Jemen-Report (2016), Thanos PetourisThe Chronicle, 01.04.2016 | |
| Reviewed in:The Chronicle, 01.04.2016 | |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Müller, A Spectre is Haunting Arabia How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Spectre is Haunting Arabia |
| ISBN: | 9783839432259 |
| 3839432251 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910265133203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Edition Politik ; ; Volume 26.