A Spectre is Haunting Arabia
How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Content
Seiten 5 - 10 -
Abbreviations (in German and English)
Seiten 11 - 12 -
Preface
Seiten 13 - 16 -
Section A. ANALYTIC AL FRAMEWORK
CHAPTER 1. Then and Now
Seiten 19 - 30 -
CHAPTER 2. State of Research
Seiten 31 - 46 -
CHAPTER 3. Analytical Approach
Seiten 47 - 72 -
PART I - The GDR as a Foreign Policy Actor
CHAPTER 4. Squeezed between Bonn and Moscow
Seiten 77 - 84 -
CHAPTER 5. Phase I: Between Internal Consolidation and International Recognition
Seiten 85 - 96 -
CHAPTER 6. Phase II: From No.2 in the Eastern Bloc to Just Another Isolation
Seiten 97 - 108 -
CHAPTER 7. The "Three Spheres of Foreign Policy Making"
Seiten 109 - 154 -
PART II - The GDR in Yemen
CHAPTER 8. The GDR and the "Arab World"
Seiten 157 - 186 -
CHAPTER 9. Forging a National Identity in Yemen's South
Seiten 187 - 228 -
CHAPTER 10. Methodological Prelude
Seiten 229 - 242 -
FOREIGN POLICY PHASE ANALYSIS
Seiten 243 - 244 -
CHAPTER 11. Phase I: The Phase of Sampling and Creation
Seiten 245 - 264 -
CHAPTER 12. Phase II
Seiten 265 - 296 -
Interlude. South Yemen
Seiten 297 - 306 -
CHAPTER 13. Phase III: The Phase of Continuity and Consolidation
Seiten 307 - 328 -
CHAPTER 14. Phase IV: The Phase of Neglect - The GDR in Yemen from 1986 to 1990
Seiten 329 - 354 -
Section C. FINDINGS
CHAPTER 15. On the External and Internal Empirical "Limits" of East German Foreign Policy
Seiten 356 - 368 -
CHAPTER 16. South Yemen as the Model Case of a Possible East German Foreign Policy
Seiten 369 - 382 -
CHAPTER 17. Moscow, East Berlin and the "Hawks of Hadramawt"
Seiten 383 - 394 -
Annex
I. Bibliography
Seiten 397 - 424 -
II. Archival Documents
Seiten 425 - 440
21 October 2015, 440 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3225-5
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