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A Spectre is Haunting Arabia: How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen
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Abstract 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.... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Yemen; political ideology; foreign policy; political influence; international relations; German Democratic Republic (GDR); cold war; political system; political development; Arab countries; Middle East; USSR
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
General History
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
440 p.
Series
Edition Politik, 26
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432259
ISBN
978-3-8394-3225-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0