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

• VerfasserIn: Müller, Miriam M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Politik ; Volume 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Table of Contents

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