A Spectre is Haunting Arabia
| Titel: | A Spectre is Haunting Arabia : How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen |
|---|---|
| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], [2019] |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (441 Seiten) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 3837632253 ; 3839432251 ; 9783837632255 ; 9783839432259 |
X
- Abbreviations (German and English)
- p. 11
- Preface
- p. 13
- A
- Analytical Framework
- Chapter 1
- Then and Now: Why the Past of Yemen's South and the GDR's Role In It matter
- p. 19
- 1
- An Analysis of the GDR's Foreign Policy - A Fruitless Endeavor?
- p. 22
- 2
- Puzzle, Hypotheses, and Structure - How the Research Question generates the Analytical Approach
- p. 26
- Chapter 2
- State of Research: The Selection of Sources for an Interdisciplinary Project
- p. 31
- 1
- History of a Divided Germany's Foreign Policy: Asymmetric Endeavors and Availability of Sources
- p. 31
- 2
- Secondary Sources in Focus I: Germany's Divided History and Foreign Policy
- p. 33
- 3
- Secondary Sources in Focus II: Cold War Studies, the Middle East and Modern Yemen
- p. 36
- 4
- Primary Sources: Between Archival and Personal Depths
- p. 40
- Chapter 3
- Analytical Approach: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Foreign Policy
- p. 47
- 1
- Foreign Policy - Where the Nation State ends
- p. 48
- 2
- How to assess Foreign Policy: Tools and Criteria
- p. 55
- 3
- Foreign Policy ends at the other State's Sovereignty
- p. 58
- 4
- The major Hypothesis: The GDR's Foreign Policy as a Policy of State- and Nation-Building
- p. 68
- 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
- p. 77
- 1
- Political Prologue: The Cards are shuffled anew - Two German States and the Rules of the Cold War
- p. 78
- 2
- Priorities from the "Phase of Recognition" to the "High Times of Diplomacy"
- p. 80
- Chapter 5
- Phase I - Between Internal Consolidation and International Recognition
- p. 85
- 1
- The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact: In the Beginning there was Moscow
- p. 85
- 2
- Bonn - A Permanent Benchmark? The GDR's Attempt to promote itself as the "Alternative Germany"
- p. 90
- 3
- On the "Road to Recognition": The Turning-Point of East German Foreign Policy
- p. 94
- Chapter 6
- Phase II: From No.2 of the Eastern Bloc to Just another Isolation: The "Policy of Self-Assertion"
- p. 97
- 1
- Keeping the Distance to Bonn - Oscillating between "Rapprochement" and "Dissociation"
- p. 98
- 2
- Growing Distance to "Brother Moscow": "Steadfast Friendship" in Danger?
- p. 101
- 3
- The Double-Edged Sword of International Recognition and the End of the GDR
- p. 103
- Chapter 7
- The "Three Spheres of Foreign Policy Making": Party, State, and Society
- p. 109
- 1
- On the Political System of the GDR and its Social Reality
- p. 110
- 2
- Ideological Principles and Foreign Policy in "Socialist Germany"
- p. 122
- 3
- Foreign Policy Actors, Competencies and the Decision-Making Process: The "Three Spheres Approach"
- p. 125
- 4
- Summary: Competencies and Influences over Time
- p. 151
- Part II
- The GDR in Yemen
- Chapter 8
- The GDR and the "Arab World": A Small State's "Fill-In Policy"
- p. 157
- 1
- The Middle East between Washington and Moscow-Pawn or Player?
- p. 158
- 2
- The GDR's "Policy of Recognition" translated to the Middle East
- p. 167
- 3
- The GDR and the Middle East: During the "High Times of Diplomacy"
- p. 172
- 4
- Means to an End - The GDR's Foreign Policy Strategies in the Arab World
- p. 175
- 5
- Conclusion: the GDR in the Middle East - A Showcase of East German Foreign Policy Strategies
- p. 183
- Chapter 9
- Forging a National Identity in Yemen's South - Social Change between Foreign Interference and a Fragmented Nation
- p. 187
- 1
- On the Relevance of Identities for this Study
- p. 187
- 2
- From Tribal Lands to a Divided Yemen: A History of Foreign Interference
- p. 190
- 3
- Determining a Yemeni identity in the South
- p. 195
- 4
- Ideological Templates: Political Influences from the Middle East and Europe
- p. 209
- 5
- Synthetic Politics in Yemen's South: A Marxist State from Scratch
- p. 221
- Chapter 10
- Methodological Prelude: Connecting the Case Study, the Foreign Policy Phase Analysis and the State- and Nation-Building Approach
- p. 229
- 1
- Two Germanys, two Yemens and the Cold War: How East-Berlin "lost" the North and "won" the South
- p. 229
- 2
- Phases of the GDR's Involvement in South Yemen: Internal Developments determine External Foreign Policy Engagement
- p. 235
- 3
- Factionism, Alliances and Executions as a Political Means - The Unstable Milieu of South Yemeni Politics
- p. 236
- 4
- The Major Hypothesis: The GDR's Foreign Policy as a Policy of Socialist State- and Nation-Building
- p. 238
- Foreign Policy Phase Analysis: The GDR's Engagement in South Yemen
- Chapter 11
- Phase 1: The Phase of Sampling and Creation from 1963 to 1969/70 - A Constitutional Draft and the Road to Recognition
- p. 245
- 1
- The Revolutionary Phoenix from Aden's Ashes: Opting for a Socialist State
- p. 245
- 2
- Soviet Engagement in South Yemen: When Aden shed its Geostrategic Invisibility Cloak
- p. 250
- 3
- The Phase of Sampling: From First Contact to Socialist Nation- and State-Building
- p. 252
- 4
- Conclusion: East-Berlin's new ally by the Red Sea
- p. 261
- Chapter 12
- Phase II: The Phase of Establishment and Expansion 1969/70 to 1978 - Incorporating Marxism-Leninism in a Tribal Society
- p. 265
- 1
- Internal Developments: The First Steps towards a Socialist State
- p. 265
- 2
- Soviet Interests and Fields of Engagement: From Suspicion to "Best-Friends-Forever"
- p. 270
- 3
- The Phase of Expansion: The GDR as the Director of "Civilian Matters" of Socialist Nation- and State-Building in South Arabia
- p. 275
- 4
- Conclusion: South Yemen as the Model Case of a Possible East German Foreign Policy
- p. 293
- Interlude: South Yemen - A "Rough State" in the Region and in the World
- p. 297
- 1
- Aden - Actor and Pawn in the Cold War Game
- p. 297
- 2
- Between Conspiracy Theories and Security Policy: East Berlin, Aden and International Terrorism
- p. 302
- Chapter 13
- Phase III: The Phase of Continuity and Consolidation from 1978 to 1986 - German Guidance and Yemeni Emancipation
- p. 307
- 1
- Aden hovering between the Peak and Abyss of its Political and Economic Development
- p. 307
- 2
- Aden - A Soviet "First-Priority Goal" in the Arab World
- p. 312
- 3
- Consolidation and Continuity of East German Socialist Nation- and State-Building: How the GDR's foreign policy tied in with the YSP's approach
- p. 316
- 4
- Conclusion: East-German Engagement Swings from Enthusiasm to Disillusion
- p. 326
- Chapter 14
- Phase IV: The Phase of Neglect from 1986 to 1990 - The "Ice Age" of relations and the End of Socialist State-Building
- p. 329
- 1
- Internal Developments: The Last Throes of a Wounded and Dying State
- p. 330
- 2
- "Soviet dilemma at the Gate of Tears": Between Influence, Imposition and Lack of Control
- p. 335
- 3
- The Caesura of 1986 and its Aftermath during the Phase of Rejection: SED-State or Honecker-Centered Policy?
- p. 341
- 4
- Conclusion: Belated and Unfortunate Self-Confidence: East-Berlin wanders off the Soviet Course
- p. 351
- C
- Findings
- Chapter 15
- On the External and Internal Empirical "Limits" of East German Foreign Policy
- p. 357
- 1
- External Determinants of East German Foreign Policy
- p. 357
- 2
- Internal Limits of Foreign Policy: Between Economic Exhaustion, "Double Standards" and Political Friction
- p. 363
- Chapter 16
- South Yemen as the Model Case of a Possible East German Foreign Policy
- p. 369
- 1
- Best Friends with Benefits: Soviet and East German Engagement in South Yemen as Part of a Regional Strategy in the Region
- p. 370
- 2
- Advocacy for an East German Foreign Policy in its own Right
- p. 373
- 3
- The GDR in South Yemen: A Phase Analysis of Foreign Policy
- p. 375
- 4
- South Yemen as the Exceptional Case and an Approximation to the "Ideal Type" of East German Foreign Policy
- p. 379
- Chapter 17
- Moscow, East Berlin and the "Hawks of Hadramawt" - Nation Building or Neo-Colonialism in Southern Yemen?
- p. 383
- 1
- How to explore the "Limits of Foreign Policy"
- p. 383
- 2
- The GDR's Policy of Socialist State- and Nation-Building: Motives and Strategies
- p. 385
- 3
- The Impact of Socialist Nation-Building on South Yemen and its Society: A truly Marxist State in the Arab World?
- p. 388
- 4
- South Yemen: Subject or Object of Foreign Policy?
- p. 391
- Annex
- I
- Bibliography
- p. 397
- II
- Archival Documents
- p. 425
