Britain and State Formation in Arabia 1962-1971: From Aden to Abu Dhabi

ISBN-13: 9780367892050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str.

Clive Jones

Opis

At a time of state fragmentation across the Middle East, this book offers important new historical insights into how the process of state creation by external powers has always been a fraught process across Arabia.  The chapters were originally published in a special issue in Middle Eastern Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction. Aden, South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: a retrospective study in state failure and state creation  1. A triumph of realism? Britain, Aden and the end of empire, 1964–67  2. The missing link? Police and state-building in South Arabia  3. Explaining the triumph of the National Liberation Front  4. The Nasser factor: Anglo-Egyptian relations and Yemen/Aden crisis 1962–65  5. The North Yemen civil war and the failure of the Federation of South Arabia  6. Failure and success in state formation: British policy towards the Federation of South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates  7. Anglo-American relations over Aden and the United Arab Emirates, 1967–71  8. From union (ʾıttihad) to united (muttahida): the United Arab Emirates, a success born of failure  9. Aden and the Gulf: the reflections of a political officer

O autorze

Clive Jones is Professor of Middle East Security at Durham University where he specialises in the history and politics of the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and his book, Britain and the Yemen Civil War 1962–1965 (2004/2010) was the subject of a BBC documentary.