A Spectre is Haunting Arabia

How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen

DOI: 10.14361/9783839432259

Müller, Miriam M.

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. 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.

[The] work stands as a great example of the strength of an open-minded interdisciplinary approach and should serve as both an encouragement and a reminder that the history of the GDR's foreign policy (not only) in Yemen has not yet been conclusively written. Thanks to Müller's book, future scholars will have a strong and solid foundation from which to continue writing the history of this peculiar ›Spectre‹.

2021-08-04Markus Bassermann, H-Soz-u-Kult, 04.08.2021

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- Frontmatter
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- Content
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- Abbreviations (in German and English)
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- Preface
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Section A. ANALYTIC AL FRAMEWORK
- CHAPTER 1. Then and Now
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- CHAPTER 2. State of Research
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- CHAPTER 3. Analytical Approach
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PART I - The GDR as a Foreign Policy Actor
- CHAPTER 4. Squeezed between Bonn and Moscow
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- CHAPTER 5. Phase I: Between Internal Consolidation and International Recognition
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- CHAPTER 6. Phase II: From No.2 in the Eastern Bloc to Just Another Isolation
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- CHAPTER 7. The "Three Spheres of Foreign Policy Making"
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PART II - The GDR in Yemen
- CHAPTER 8. The GDR and the "Arab World"
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- CHAPTER 9. Forging a National Identity in Yemen's South
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- CHAPTER 10. Methodological Prelude
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- FOREIGN POLICY PHASE ANALYSIS
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- CHAPTER 11. Phase I: The Phase of Sampling and Creation
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- CHAPTER 12. Phase II
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- Interlude. South Yemen
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- CHAPTER 13. Phase III: The Phase of Continuity and Consolidation
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- CHAPTER 14. Phase IV: The Phase of Neglect - The GDR in Yemen from 1986 to 1990
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Section C. FINDINGS
- CHAPTER 15. On the External and Internal Empirical "Limits" of East German Foreign Policy
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- CHAPTER 16. South Yemen as the Model Case of a Possible East German Foreign Policy
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- CHAPTER 17. Moscow, East Berlin and the "Hawks of Hadramawt"
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Annex
- I. Bibliography
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- II. Archival Documents
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Verlag: transcript Verlag
Schlagworte: Yemen, Marxism, GDR, Cold War, State-Building, Middle East, Ideology, Soviet Union, Arab Peninsula, Politics, International Relations, Political Ideologies, State, Contemporary History, Political Science,

[The] work stands as a great example of the strength of an open-minded interdisciplinary approach and should serve as both an encouragement and a reminder that the history of the GDR's foreign policy (not only) in Yemen has not yet been conclusively written. Thanks to Müller's book, future scholars will have a strong and solid foundation from which to continue writing the history of this peculiar ›Spectre‹.

2021-08-04Markus Bassermann, H-Soz-u-Kult, 04.08.2021

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.

2017-09-19Lutz Maeke, www.sehepunkte.de, 17/9 (2017)

Die Arbeit schließt eine wichtige Lücke in der Forschung zur DDR-Geschichte.

2016-03-17Michael Rohschürmann, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 17.03.2016

Insgesamt bietet Müllers Werk den ersten, auf deutschem Archivmaterial basierenden Überblick über die ostdeutsch-südjemenitischen Beziehungen. Er schließt damit eine bedeutende Lücke in der bestehenden Historiographie beider Länder und stellt lang gehaltene Annahmen über die Rolle der DDR im Südjemen in Frage.

2016-03-14Thanos Petouris, Jemen-Report (2016)

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Section A. ANALYTIC AL FRAMEWORK

PART I - The GDR as a Foreign Policy Actor

PART II - The GDR in Yemen

Section C. FINDINGS

Annex

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