A Spectre is Haunting Arabia
How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen
Author(s)
Müller, Miriam M.
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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 #on("i")#"Socialist state- and nation-building"#off("i")#. 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.
Keywords
Political Science; Yemen; Marxism; GDR; Cold War; State-Building; Middle East; Ideology; Soviet Union; Arab Peninsula; Politics; International Relations; Political Ideologies; State; Contemporary History; Political Science; Aden; East Berlin; East Germany; Foreign policy; Moscow; Socialist Unity Party of Germany; South YemenDOI
10.14361/9783839432259ISBN
9783839432259OCN
960758215Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2015-10-15Grantor
Imprint
transcript VerlagSeries
Edition Politik,Classification
International relations