Chaos in Yemen : Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism

ISBN-13: 9780415625753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Isa Blumi

Opis

'Chaos in Yemen' challenges recent interpretations of Yemen's complex social, political and economic transformations since unification in 1990. By offering a new perspective to the violence afflicting the larger region, it explains why the 'Abdullah 'Ali Salih regime has become the principal beneficiary of these conflicts.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Yemen’s Social Pathologies beyond the Strategic Mainstream  2. The Local Scramble for Ascendancy and the Rise of Modern Polities  3. The Contingent State: The Dynamics of Administrating Yemen  4. The Frontier as a Measure of Modern State Power  5. Unification and the Roots of Salih’s Authoritarian Push.  Conclusion

O autorze

Isa Blumi, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University’s History Department and Middle East Institute, is author of numerous articles on the modern Middle East’s history that focus especially on late imperial rivalries in the Arabian Gulf and Yemen as well as issues of Muslim identity in the context of modernity. A former Fulbright-Hayes, Woodrow Wilson, SSRC, ACLS, and AIYS fellow, among his publications is the book, Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire (2003) and articles appearing in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.