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Edition Politik ; v. 26 |
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Edition Politik.
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Print version record. |
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Cover A Spectre is Haunting Arabia; Content ; Abbreviations (German and English) ; Preface ; A. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK ; Chapter 1. Then and Now: Why the Past of Yemen's South and the GDR's Role in it matter ; 1. An Analysis of the GDR's Foreign Policy -- A Fruitless Endeavor? |
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2. Puzzle, Hypotheses, and Structure -- How the Research Question generates the Analytical Approach Chapter 2. State of Research: The Selection of Sources for an Interdisciplinary Project ; 1. History of a Divided Germany's Foreign Policy: Asymmetric Endeavors and Availability of Sources. |
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2. Secondary Sources in Focus I: Germany's Divided History and Foreign Policy 3. Secondary Sources in Focus II: Cold War Studies, the Middle East and Modern Yemen ; 4. Primary Sources: Between Archival and Personal Depths. |
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Chapter 3. Analytical Approach: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Foreign Policy 1. Foreign Policy -- Where the Nation State ends ; 2. How to assess Foreign Policy: Tools and Criteria ; 3. Foreign Policy ends at the other State's Sovereignty. |
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4. The major Hypothesis: The GDR's Foreign Policy as a Policy of State- and Nation-Building B. ANALYSIS ; PART I -- The GDR as a Foreign Policy Actor ; Chapter 4. Squeezed between Bonn and Moscow: The GDR's Foreign Policy -- An Overview. |
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1. Political Prologue: The Cards are shuffled anew -- Two German States and the Rules of the Cold War. |
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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 |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Open Access EbpS |
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Communism -- Yemen, South -- History.
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Socialism -- Yemen, South -- History.
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International relations.
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Politics and government.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Communism
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Socialism
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South Yemen
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Arab Peninsula. |
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Cold War. |
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Contemporary History. |
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GDR. |
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Ideology. |
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International Relations. |
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Marxism. |
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Middle East. |
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Political Ideologies. |
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Political Science. |
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Politics. |
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Soviet Union. |
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State-Building. |
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State. |
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History
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Print version: Müller, Miriam M. A Spectre is Haunting Arabia : How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, ©2015 9783837632255 |
| ISBN |
9783839432259 (electronic bk.) |
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3839432251 (electronic bk.) |
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9783837632255 (electronic bk.) |
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3837632253 (electronic bk.) |
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10.14361/9783839432259 doi |
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AU@ 000069181682 |
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CHNEW 001035331 |
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CHVBK 556237935 |
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