Beyond the Arab Cold War

The international history of the Yemen civil war, 1962-68

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ID19983305
AuthorsAsher Orkaby (0000-0001-5865-9439, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages294
Publication date2017-06-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBeyond the Arab Cold war (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618445.001.0001
OpenAlexW4251506697
Open LibraryOL26935906M
ISBN9780190618445
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War (1962–68) to the forefront of modern Middle East history, in a comprehensive account that features multilingual and multinational archives and oral histories. Throughout six years of major conflict Yemen sat at the crossroads of regional and international conflict as dozens of countries, international organizations, and individuals intervened in the local South Arabian civil war. Yemen was a showcase for a new era of UN and Red Cross peacekeeping, clandestine activity, Egypt’s counterinsurgency, and one of the first large-scale uses of poison gas since World War I. Events in Yemen were not dominated by a single power, nor were they sole products of US-Soviet or Saudi-Egyptian Arab Cold War rivalry. Rather, during the 1960s Yemen was transformed into an arena of global conflict whose ensuing chaos tore down the walls of centuries of religious rule and isolation and laid the groundwork for the next half century of Yemeni history. The end of the Yemen Civil War marked the end of both Egyptian President Nasser’s Arab nationalist colonial expansion and the British Empire in the Middle East, two of the most dominant regional forces. The legacy of the eventual northern tribal defeat and the compromised establishment of a weak and decentralized republic are at the core of modern-day conflicts in South Arabia

Ancient history · Colonialism · Economic history · Empire · Geography · Middle East · Modern history · Nationalism · Peacekeeping · Political science · Politics · Rivalry · Spanish Civil War · African history and culture analysis · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · 1962-1972 · 20th century · Civil War · Cold war · Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978 · Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01754978 · Revolution (Yemen (Arab Republic) : 1962) fast (OCoLC)fst01907584 · Revolution (Yemen (Arab Republic) : 1962) fast (OCoLC)fst01907584 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01907584 · Revolution, 1962 · Yemen · Yemen (Arab Republic) · Yemen (Republic)

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