TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muller,Miriam M.
TI  - A Spectre is Haunting Arabia: How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen 
SN  - 9783837632255
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Political Science / International Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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 "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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/3d7d0137-d159-4002-a5bd-c5e5e8e0f451
ER  -