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A Spectre is Haunting Arabia

How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen
DOI: 10.14361/9783839432259
  • Müller,  Miriam M.
    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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Abbreviations (in German and English)
Miriam M. Müller
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Preface
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 13 - 16
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Section A. ANALYTIC AL FRAMEWORK

CHAPTER 1. Then and Now
Miriam M. Müller
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CHAPTER 2. State of Research
Miriam M. Müller
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CHAPTER 3. Analytical Approach
Miriam M. Müller
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PART I - The GDR as a Foreign Policy Actor

CHAPTER 4. Squeezed between Bonn and Moscow
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 77 - 84
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CHAPTER 5. Phase I: Between Internal Consolidation and International Recognition
Miriam M. Müller
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CHAPTER 6. Phase II: From No.2 in the Eastern Bloc to Just Another Isolation
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 97 - 108
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CHAPTER 7. The "Three Spheres of Foreign Policy Making"
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 109 - 154
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PART II - The GDR in Yemen

CHAPTER 8. The GDR and the "Arab World"
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 157 - 186
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CHAPTER 9. Forging a National Identity in Yemen's South
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 187 - 228
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CHAPTER 10. Methodological Prelude
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 229 - 242
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FOREIGN POLICY PHASE ANALYSIS
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 243 - 244
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CHAPTER 11. Phase I: The Phase of Sampling and Creation
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 245 - 264
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CHAPTER 12. Phase II
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 265 - 296
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Interlude. South Yemen
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 297 - 306
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CHAPTER 13. Phase III: The Phase of Continuity and Consolidation
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 307 - 328
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CHAPTER 14. Phase IV: The Phase of Neglect - The GDR in Yemen from 1986 to 1990
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 329 - 354
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Section C. FINDINGS

CHAPTER 15. On the External and Internal Empirical "Limits" of East German Foreign Policy
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 356 - 368
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CHAPTER 16. South Yemen as the Model Case of a Possible East German Foreign Policy
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 369 - 382
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CHAPTER 17. Moscow, East Berlin and the "Hawks of Hadramawt"
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 383 - 394
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Annex

I. Bibliography
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 397 - 424
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II. Archival Documents
Miriam M. Müller
Seiten: 425 - 440
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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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