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

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 Ar...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Edition Politik ; Volume 26.
Physical Description:1 online resource (441 p.)
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  • 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