Yemen divided : the story of a failed state in South Arabia / Noel Brehony.

By: Brehony, NoelMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xxii, 257 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9781848856356; 1848856350Subject(s): Failed states -- Yemen, South -- History | Yemen, South -- History -- 20th century | Yemen (Republic) -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 953.3505 LOC classification: DS247.A28 | B74 2011
Contents:
Pt. A. From south Arabia to South Yemen. South Arabia in 1967 -- The National Liberation Front takes power -- From PRSY to PDRY via the glorious corrective move -- pt. B. The Salmin years. Structures and leadership in the early 1970s -- The PDRY's internal and external policies in the Salmin years -- Who leads, the president or the party? : the downfall of Salmin -- pt. C. The struggle for power. The presidency of Abd al-Fattah Ismaʻil and the formation of the Yemeni Socialist Party -- Ali Nasir Muhammad as supreme leader -- Policies in the Ali Nasir years -- pt. D. From the PDRY to the Republic of Yemen. Fracturing the regime : the events of January 1986 -- Unity or reform? -- Union without unity -- pt. E. Did the PDRY fail? Could an independent South Yemen return? -- Appendices. The principal tribes in Lahij, Abyan and Shabwa -- List of prominent personalities.
Summary: A history of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967-1990), with implications for Yemen today.
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Pt. A. From south Arabia to South Yemen. South Arabia in 1967 -- The National Liberation Front takes power -- From PRSY to PDRY via the glorious corrective move -- pt. B. The Salmin years. Structures and leadership in the early 1970s -- The PDRY's internal and external policies in the Salmin years -- Who leads, the president or the party? : the downfall of Salmin -- pt. C. The struggle for power. The presidency of Abd al-Fattah Ismaʻil and the formation of the Yemeni Socialist Party -- Ali Nasir Muhammad as supreme leader -- Policies in the Ali Nasir years -- pt. D. From the PDRY to the Republic of Yemen. Fracturing the regime : the events of January 1986 -- Unity or reform? -- Union without unity -- pt. E. Did the PDRY fail? Could an independent South Yemen return? -- Appendices. The principal tribes in Lahij, Abyan and Shabwa -- List of prominent personalities.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-249) and index.

A history of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967-1990), with implications for Yemen today.

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